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Artist Sandy
Forrest-Hartman has literally stamped her way onto the art
scene by becoming one of the most prominent Art-To-Wear
jewelry designers in the Gulf Coast Region. Sandy grew up in
San Antonio, Texas, but now lives in Houston. She is a
full-time certified paralegal at a downtown Houston law
firm and teaches evening paralegal classes at a Houston
Junior College. She is also a Certified Herbalist.
Sandy’s miniature palettes are dominoes, on which she
creates affordable and sometimes eclectic works of art.
Within the last year, she has begun to use vintage
dominoes---some are bakelite, which is highly collectible,
and occasionally, she is lucky enough to find ebony and bone
dominoes, which she has been able to trace back to the Civil
War era.
The only
drawback to using those 141+ year old dominoes are the metal
pins which hold the ebony and the bone together. Most of
the time, the pin is flush with the domino, which does not
create a stamping mishap with the design on the smooth side of
the domino but if the pin is the slightest bit off, a distortion
with the design will occur.
Sandy is
quite fond of using those vintage dominoes because it brings
everyone who possesses a “reinvintage” piece just a little
closer to history. Not only can Sandy trace her
genealogical roots back to several Civil War soldiers but also
to at least three Texas Rangers and to the Canary Islander
descendants who were instrumental in settling San Antonio.
Sandy
established Mystic Angel Creations in 2001 and subsequently,
her web site in 2003, www.MysticAngelCreations.com, for
the purpose of teaching others to unlock their own
creativity and artistic talents, as well as creating beautiful
one-of-a-kind pieces of quality, yet affordable, art-to-wear
jewelry.
Sandy
teaches classes once or twice a month in bead and scrapbooking
stores in the Houston, Texas area but is planning to expand
her teaching base in 2007 to include classes in San Antonio
and the Texas Hill
Country.
Some
of her other credits include articles about her work in the
Houston Chronicle, The Galveston Daily News and Envy Magazine.
She was also “Artist of the Week” for Fox 26 during the week
of March 20th – 26th, 2007. She is also
a member of the Art League of Houston, Houston Area Fiber
Artists, and the Houston Bead Society. In 2003, she
won second place in the sculpture category in the Art Walk on
Morton Street in Richmond,
Texas.
Sandy’s latest venture is the co-founder of the Texas Artist
Market for the purpose of networking with other artists and
promoting the artists and the events in which they
participate. She recognized a need for a group,
which would benefit all Texas artists by providing a
free venue for posting events, press releases and other
happenings in and around Texas. The web site is www.TexasArtistMmarket.net,
which is free to all individual Texas artists and/or art groups. |
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