I started carving eggs in January of 2005. After the Christmas season, I took a break and began playing with a simple design, the turtle. I do a really nice one on a kamani ornament, so I took that design, put it on an egg and voila! It sorta just came together and I was off and running! I got so caught up in this new canvas, that I totally put my other work aside and jumped in feet first! As I was working away and loving every minute of this, I happened to be looking thru the newspaper one day and saw this article about a Biennial Show coming up in Waimea, themed EGG! Well, I was thinking that maybe I could come up with something and enter. A couple of days later, a friend down my road called me to ask if I'd seen this article about a show about eggs. I told her yes and she said I'd be a fool not to enter, considering what I had been doing. I entered 3 eggs and they all won the Waimea Arts Council, New Artist Award. Part of my award included the scheduling of my very own month-long show in December, 2006, in Waimea at the Firehouse Gallery. Then, in October of 2005, I again entered 2 eggs in Gary LeMaster's International Egg Carver's contest and took a respectful 1st in Novice Filigree and a 3rd in Novice Relief. By then, the fever had increased ten-fold and was I ever starting to become truly addicted to this new art. In October of 2006, I again took 3rd Place Experienced Carver in Experienced Filigree. (picture of egg to the left) Since then, I have been a featured artist at Koehnen's Interiors during First Friday of the Month -- November of 2005 and April of 2006, as well as being featured in Hawaiian Airlines Magazine -- Hana Hou's April/May issue of 2007. My egg creations are available at: Koehnen's Interior's -- Downtown Hilo Kilauea Kreations -- Volcano village Hilton Waikoloa Village Resorts Art Gallery Hawaii State Art Museum Gift Shop -- Honolulu, Hawaii |
