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Welcome!
Painter Moon specializes in handcrafted beaded jewelry, stitched, loomed, and strung, in both traditional and original styles, using glass beads, crystals, metals, and semiprecious stones. This is intended to be wearable art, tending toward elegance with a touch of whimsy, but with great respect for the traditions of indigenous artists whose cultures have used beads for generations. I work with several different beading techniques, including peyote stitch, with its roots in southwestern ceremonial art, and straight stitch, very similar in appearance to loom weaving, and I’m always working to increase my repertoire. I also like to work with stones, and am constantly on the lookout for interesting colors and textures to incorporate in my work.
I hope you like what you see; creating beautiful things gives me peace, but this is intended to give joy to others as well. I have work on display for sale at The Crafty Lady in Comer, GA; I’ve also sold at the Comer Farmer’s Market, and at other local venues. Please see the "Links" section to visit some of these venues' websites.
Why "Painter Moon"?
When I was a young girl growing up in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, I’d listen to the grannies tell stories they’d heard growing up, sometimes about how places around us got their names. War-woman Dell always seemed a place that could have spawned my ancestral mothers, Fern Springs would have been a good place to rest on an August afternoon, and Bear Gap was no place to be lost. I thought Panther Creek was a fanciful name, but the old folks told about the times the ‘painters’ would come down out of the mountains and roam the edges of the populated areas, and how you used to be able to hear them in the woods at night—sounded just like a woman screaming, the old ones said. I think the painters always symbolized for me the wild world just beyond the edges of our experience, where things aren’t always what they seem, and the cat in the tree may be a painter in disguise.
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