With warmer weather approaching, it seems like a good time to begin a new multi-part series about making Summertime, the fourth piece in my seasonal landscape series. It feels so good to have completed all four seasons in this project, which I started during the pandemic, as a way to focus on something positive and healing.

Over the coming weeks and months, I will share photos, videos and commentary about different aspects of the project, from raspberries to tree houses and their inhabitants to a life size Baltimore Oriole.

Summertime is the summer scene in a series of seasonal landscapes that capture the wonder and magic of the natural world. There will be an opportunity to see these 4 new pieces and dozens of other original works in my upcoming exhibition, Enchanting Threads: The Art of Salley Mavor at the Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY, July 27, 2024 – February 23, 2025

Note cards, prints, bookmarks, and jigsaw puzzles of Summertime and the other scenes in the series (Frosty Morning, Mossy Glen, and Harvest Time) are available in my Etsy Shop.

I know that you like to see my fingers in action, so I took videos of different parts of the process. Sometimes I weeded the garden and stitched on the same day, so I hope that my dirty fingernails aren’t too distracting! Here are 2 previews of making the bird’s beak and sewing raspberries. There’s lots more to show, so stay tuned!

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