Our community library has a magazine swap table. This is great for me as I could bankrupt myself on magazines. In a recent batch I perused an issue of Better Homes and Gardens.
On the wall of one of featured homes was one of my larger paintings. During the period of 1995-1999 I created a series of fairly large scale paintings I called the Cloisters and Cathedrals series. The one in the magazine was a painting that sold via a gallery and I never knew where it went. And now I do.
This afternoon I watched my latest NetFlix CD, an excellent British TV Mystery series called Rosemary & Thyme. In episode 2, the unfortunate and soon- to-be-murdered victim is a successful, but older, rock star. He is shown in his studio composing his latest song…..and he is wearing one of MY bolo ties. I backed up the frames, froze it, zoomed in, enlarged it and I’m 100% certain it’s one I made. The design is so unique that I doubt it could have been a coincidence. I was thrilled. I have to wonder how it found it’s way to rural England.
This shouldn’t surprise me as I have seen other pieces of my jewelry on television before….TV anchorwomen seem to appreciate the pins, brooches and ear rings I made. I can only remember making 50 or so bolo ties.
I estimate I had made/sold over 30,000 pieces before I quit making jewelry all together. I still have enough supplies to make a few thousand more pieces. I suppose I should pass these supplies along as I cannot imagine I will ever use them.
Sometimes artists are like that.
