Go visit your favorite home-improvement store and buy a couple of cans of spray foam insulation. Do you have a sturdy shipping carton? Oh, well then, you need to beg, borrow, or buy one. Next, wrap your pointy, pokey, delicate mosaic in layers of kitchen plastic wrap.  Make the

The Food Desert This mosaic will soon hang in Ciel Gallery in Charlotte, North Carolina.  Here is Ciel’s press release about the show, tailored for my local paper, of course: Lynn Bridge of Austin, TX  has been selected by juror Sonia King for inclusion in articulate : the

Today I want to highlight two artists whose thoughts have converged for me. The first, Liza Meyers, is a painter and sculptor whose blog post today caught my attention:  “No Excuses: Make Art With What We Have.”  She describes visually and verbally some instances in

Last post, I promised pictures of my new mosaic studio.  I also have pictures of my adjoining painting studio.  Now you’ll want to visit, won’t you?

Glencliff Studio, my new home! Less than one week before the 2012 West Austin Studio Tour, my new mosaic studio was complete and I was moving in!  How did this happen? First, I got tired of working in my garage- really, really tired.  In the winter, I told myself that artists in

[slideshow] More glass shards, more kiln time, more mortar, more faces.  These are the faces you have seen before, either on this blog, or at my home studio, and they are starting to multiply. My kiln is running every day now that the West Austin Studio Tour is over. I am using

Looking at the date on my last post, April 19, 2012, I realize how long I’ve been away from this blog.  Renovating for and moving my mosaic studio while simultaneously getting ready for the public to come through our home and new studio on this past weekend’s West

“Gems” by Lynn Bridge This morning, when I went for a walk, I felt porous. The wind through my skin and the light and shadow through my eyes carried restoration and wisdom inside me.  I deflated just a bit upon coming indoors to work.  Note to my spirit:  hold the

[slideshow] The last couple of days, I have taken an old, unfinished mosaic of mine outside to watch it interact and make friends with the light, patterns, and forms in the front yard.  I took lots of pictures, and sometimes gave it my “blur treatment”.  You’ll

The Paleo Diet by Lynn Bridge 10 1/2″ x 13″ Have not read the book.  I do see it on other peoples’ bookshelves, and I hear others swearing by it for weight loss and good health. When I hear the prefix ‘paleo-,’ I immediately think