Do you remember tracing your hand when you were a kid to draw a turkey? That was the inspiration for this guy. I made him a few years ago at the suggestion of my husband, and it’s one of my favorite window pieces that I’ve made. I tried tracing my own, adult hand to make the design but didn’t like Read more
Just finished up this fun little piece. I bent the neon shape out of 8mm uncoated blacklight tubing. It lives inside a box frame that I built, then lined the inside with a repurposed blacklight poster. That part was a bit tricky but it turned out alright.
Recently, I finished the project of changing the organization and storage of my neon patterns. I didn’t realize what I was getting myself into when I started and it ended up taking me about 7 months to get it done. Turns out, after making neon in my studio for 22 years, I had accumulated quite a few! I always stored Read more
I’ve been busy over the past month preparing for a couple of events that are somewhat related in that they involve my window neon. Most recently was getting ready for an art show at Space 1026 in Philadelphia. They are a gallery with a focus on screenprinting but have rotating art shows every month. “Round A Bout” is a show Read more
I recently finished up this small grouping of neon pieces, which I am calling Neon Moonflowers. They are a combination of neon tubing and vintage light shades. The first one of these I ever made was back in 2018. I really loved the look of these and intended on making a series of them, so over the past several years, Read more
I’m part of an artist group called the Philadelphia Dumpster Divers. I’ve only been a member for about 4 years, but the group was started 30 years ago. One of the founding members is my friend Len Davidson, who also opened the Neon Museum of Philadelphia last year. The Dumpster Divers don’t actually go diving into dumpsters (well, maybe some Read more
Last week I finished this for James Oliver Gallery here in Philadelphia. James bought a small neon from me a few years ago and when he reached out to me to ask about making his logo in neon I was super excited. Some designs really lend themselves to neon, and JOG is one of them. The best part is that Read more
A past client of mine recently asked me to duplicate this famous album cover by the band Big Star. Here are some photos of that process….. I’m not the first neon artist to do this, so I wanted to do something a little extra with mine and thought using this vintage frame I found would give it a nice 1970’s Read more
Hello any readers who may have happened to stumble their way to this blog post. 🙂 I see that I haven’t posted here in 6 months! Well, that’s all about to change as I am hereby committing to posting an entry here at least once a week. Most of my “posting” is spent over on Instagram, which I really hate, Read more
This is uncoated noviol gold filled with argon and a little bit of neon. It’s a nice color but not quite what I am going for so I’m going to replace the electrodes and re-process it and put a little more neon in the mix this time. 🌀Stay tuned…..