I am really thrilled to open this blogspace with the news that a local (Cabot, Vermont) artist who has been working for half a century from her home here, South of the Northeast Kingdom, has finally got her work online. The artist is Wilma Lovely, a beautiful human being who has more salt in her that the Dead Sea. Wilma works steadily, creating a lovely stream of work that combines jewelry, electronic parts, bits of glass and other lovely items into representations of Vermont life.

Built by button-mania artist Janet Van Fleet (lots more about her after her opening at the Lazy Pear Gallery March 15) , WilmaLovely.com contains dozens of images and a brief bio of the artist. I’m happy to say the whole thing emerged fast and furious out of a conversation we had at Janet’s home. Go Janet!