Lebeth Lammers

Itís hard to talk about art, but the creative process comes naturally to me. I began making things with my hands early in childhood and I have never stopped.  It has never occurred to me to do anything else.  What started as a childhood passion I refined through my fine arts curriculum in school until today I make my living as an artist.  I still feel the exhilaration of getting up every day, walking out to the studio, looking at what I did the day before and picking up the thread again. As in childhood, itís the organic, tactile process and its visual results that primarily inform my work, but now with the benefit of an adultís experience and education.  Once I finish a piece, I can often see its inspiration, which may be dreams, observations or that universal source, nature.   But conscious understanding of it usually comes later and is secondary.