Who is creative Lenna?        

 Lenna Andrews describes herself as a creative and passionate mixed-media artist and instructor. She lives in Avon, Connecticut with her husband Steven Deming and their four rescued pets; two dogs and two cats. Lenna loves to create, teach mixed media art classes, and share about this and more on the creative lenna blog. She enjoys art exchanges (swaps) and loves making sample artwork for Alpha Stamps and ARTchix Studio. She is lucky to spend most of her time with Steven, creating art, editing her websites, doing some teaching, taking care of their home/pets, and organizing art swaps for creative swaps!

 

This is Lenna's original website, first developed by her son Decklin Foster in 1996 when the internet/websites were just babes. Decklin was only 14 years old at the time. These days (age 27) he works as an Information Technology specialist in the Neuroscience Lab at Harvard University. This original website has grown and changed over the years and site updates are now taken care of by Lenna. This website is home to lots of examples of Lenna's artwork. There are many samples of fabric art, lots of collage art, examples of altered books,  fabric books, ATCs,  fabric stamping, rubber stamp art, and Lenna's published pieces from 1994-2007. In addition to what can be seen here, there are links to other websites where you can view more of Lenna's art in the sidebar to your right >>>.

 

For current artwork hop over to Lenna's art blog. Besides the blog, there is a newer website focusing on Lenna's tutorials and on-line/email workshops: A Little Creative Space. Workshops are published as pdf files so you can work on them at your own pace. The tutorials on the web site are free!

 

On this site visit the about Lenna page and learn more about Lenna's great uncle. William Glackens was an influential American Impressionist painter at the turn of the century. You can find his work in many major museums and collections. Lenna is named after William's daughter, Lenna Glackens who was also also an artist and a writer.

 

Do you have questions about how-to do fabric stamping and properly heat set it? Are you wondering how to create small fabric quilties?

Visit A Little Creative Space for free tutorials.

 

 

A personal note from Lenna:  Steven and I sometimes get asked why we have different last names, even though we are married?  I would have happily changed my last name when we got married but Mr. Deming had a few other ideas. In fact he insisted that I keep my maiden name!  You can visit this page  for a little more explanation and our story ~ if you are curious!

 

Steven is my biggest supporter and fan. He works as a senior level technical consultant and systems architect for Innovative Computer Systems (Farmington, CT)  allowing me to be able to create and teach.  But Steven is also an artist who has created award winning  graphite drawings, funny cartoons and more recently, collaborative paintings with me.  He will deny he is a true artist if you ask him. I disagree! We happily share our creative home with the four pets we've rescued; two friendly terrier-mix dogs, Asia & Chloe, and two lively cats, Star & Farfel. I hope to be sharing a studio with Steven again soon. These days his time is quite consumed by work and he has not had the time or the inspiration to create anything recently . . . until . . . . Look at what Steven made for me for Christmas 2008! I've added a photo of my gift (etched wine glasses) to my blog.

Steven also drew a wonderful cartoon for me of our 2 cats for my birthday, last February 2009! Thank you, Steven!

Contact us via email anytime, if you have questions .

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more about . . .

www.creativelenna.com

The Photo Gallery is where you'll find ATCs, altered books, collage pieces, mixed media art, and fabric art. Look at the right hand side once you are there for links to specific pages. Lenna has also made a page on this site for her husband, Steven Deming to showcase his talent.  Drawing by Steven Deming (click for more detail)

Personal photos celebrating Steven and Lenna's wedding in June of 2005 are also found in the Photo Gallery. View the happy occasion and take a peek at all the art sent to Lenna and Steven from family and many on-line friends around the world and incorporated into their wedding. Lenna made her hand-stamped wedding dress and stamped the back of Steven's vest at his request! 

Family photos, including a photo diary on how Lenna's father creates handmade wooden cedar strip boats are in the Photo gallery. Lenna's mom claims that Lenna has received all her creative talents from her dad (smile) but her mom is very creative too! 

 

The collaborative art gallery page is where you'll find a number of paintings done together by Steven & Lenna. Here's Steven standing with one of these paintings. This 2007 photo was taken at the West Hartford Art League's Juried Art Show.  Steven & Lenna love this painting and both agree it was quite a thrill to get into a juried art show with their piece called Color Play. 

ART SWAPS and Exchanges shares swap related art, 2007 and prior. This is where you can view the results of completed swaps Lenna hosted. You'll find Lenna's own swap/exchange art, as well as the art of many other creative and talented artists to inspire you!

For newer art swaps, visit the Creative Swaps Blog. This blog debuted in April 2007 to organize and share the art swaps Lenna hosts.

Leave this website to visit my gallery of custom-made U.S. Postage Stamps created from art and photos by my husband and myself. The postage stamps are produced through Zazzle.com and they are legal! You can personalize our designs for your own use by changing the text, or you can create your own stamps and other items from your own art. These art stamps are great for Mail Art.

buy unique gifts at Zazzle

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I just have to share some favorite photos of Wolfe Island in Ontario, CANADA ~from 2006

 

We visit beautiful Wolfe Island, Ontario every year -- Steven's grandmother was born on this island and his family still owns the farmhouse she was born in and the  surrounding cottages on the banks of St. Lawrence River across from Kingston, Ontario.  Wolfe Island is the largest of all the Thousand Islands, and very beautiful and peaceful.

   

 

To the right is a photo of Steven motoring the sailboat he named 'Nimda' after a computer virus (!) around the island.  Kingston, Ontario is in the distance -click on the photo for a better look.

 

Below, I'm walking with Asia on Wolfe Island. This rural, farming island is very beautiful and I am so happy Steven introduced me to it!

 

More photos of beautiful Wolfe Island, Canada are here.

"Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing. When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and he opens ways for better understanding." 

Robert Henri, The Art Spirit (1923)

My great uncle, William Glackens was a protégé of Robert Henri and shared a studio with him in 1894. I admire Mr. Henri as an artist and a teacher, especially after reading more about him.

For more quotes, check out my favorite quotes page.

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Thanks for visiting!  Steve & Lenna

 Steven and I send our very best wishes to you!

We appreciate your visit to this website.

last updated June 23, 2009

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