My Creative Friends Pt. 2

I met Rebekah Potter at the dog park...then at The Back Door Bakery...then at the dog park. We started chatting, and we kept chatting. Rebekah has been a great sounding board for me. We'd bitch about relationships, and then focus on the important things, our creativity. Both of us Gemeni's, both of us artist's with plenty of great ideas and too little time and money to make our dreams a reality. But we never discouraged the dreams.

Not long ago, Rebekah moved back to her home town of Jackson Mississippi. There she seems to be very close to accomplishing some of the dreams we discussed.

At heart, Rebekah is a fine artist. A painter/mixed media artist. Eastern motifs and artists such as Robert Rauschenberg are pretty evident in much of her work. I traded her design work on her web-site (not currently live) for a few paintings. With her recent works she is sewing pieces of paper together and making these paper QUILT like paintings(?) and doing portraits again..hoping to make some large canvas works soon too!

Currently she has focused on a variety more "commercial" ventures to pay the bills and to reach a wider audience.

Her Bloks are mini paintings on 3x5 wood blocks with a slightly more "pop" motif that, like josh's bodega squares, go well when put together in multiples. She sells these at the Belhaven Market in Jackson, Cake in West LA(across from UrthCafe), Yolk in SilverLake and Juniper Sky Gallery in Utah. She is hoping to get stores in Brooklyn, Phoenix, San Fran, Atlanta and Memphis. She takes commissions with these....(has cute gift certificates even!) They sell for about $36.

She is also working on illustrating the next two books in a series of three..Lucia Loupa and Leah..painter,philospher and architect kids..After these there will be a series of three for boys. All will be packaged in threes in a little box set. We are
hoping to expand into some tshirts and such for some kids wear. *note her man Jason writes and designs she merely illustrates

Rebekah and I don't get to talk as much as we used to.

If you're interested in finding out more about her work, I'm sure she wouldn't mind you emailing her at rpotterdesigns@yahoo.com