Recently I've come to want a more expressive art, exploring new possibilities in design, materials, and subject matter, and developing new skills and techniques through formal and informal training. The pieces I make are still informed by over thirty years of craftsmanship but the ideas are now triggered by everything from a passing view out my car window to fantasy literature to world events.

Other than art? When I finished the degree in computer science, there was no longer any plan to build starships, but there's a artistic satisfaction in well designed code, and it certainly helps pay the bills. I also enjoy music, cooking, and the occasional writing of execrable poetry. Reports of my daily life (and some excellent recipes) can be found on LiveJournal under the name "Kathryn_aka_Kat", and a more random collection of artwork, with new and old and WIP pieces, can be found at deviantART under the name "Cimeara".

I also exist under various incarnations on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Dreamwidth, WordPress, and Blogger/BlogSpot, but, really, there's nothing going on there.

You can contact me at chansonarts@gmail.com or through any of the other web connections.

"A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist." Louis Nizer, Between You and Me.