My personality and artistic nature both fit the dual nature of Cancer well. I much prefer to work alone and find it quite hard to create anything when I have an audience of any kind, even one that’s not actually watching me. At the same time, teaching is rather easy for me and I love the one-on-one type of relationships and connections that an artist and small business person makes with their customers. I enjoy being able to help people figure out what exactly they want in the piece I make for them or help a customer find exactly the right piece to suit them.

I definitely love the past and most things related to history, and this reflects itself regularly in my work. One of my favorite aspects of making a piece is the research I might get to do while preparing or planning the design. History plays a huge part in my thinking and imagination and I like to indulge in it while working on my art.

Leaf Seasons Journal Pamphlet

On the less stellar side of the sign, I definitely have a tendency toward being untidy, moody and irritable. But I find that as long as I have regular, consistent time to work on my art, I am much less apt to fall into moodiness and irritability.

I am a self-taught artist, bookbinder and sculptor. I’ve been sculpting for over eight years now and binding books for around five years. Working in leather is my latest love and something I’ve been working on for about two and a half years now. My non-artistic career was as a secretary, both executive and administrative, but I much prefer being an artist.