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Hailing from a small farming town of 100 in
central
New York, Candy spent many years
working high tech jobs in
Silicon Valley. She moved to
Montana in 2000 at the end of her Y2K consulting
project to Visa International.
Coming
from a long line of artists has been a challenge for Candy. Both her Mother and Grandmother were fine
oil painters. Candy has several of
their works hanging in her home. She has found her niche and is sharing it
with you at RiverView Arts.
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Candy lives in
Trout Creek
Montana
with her husband, Ron, two cats and a step son who occupies their guest
cabin. After retirement and
lots of work to get their home in order, Candy assessed what she wanted
to do next. When Candy was a small child her mother
designed and made all her clothes.
She also taught Candy how to sew and crochet.
In early 2002 Candy took up her crochet needles deciding to create an
unusual work to enter in the Sanders County Fair. During those difficult times the
American Flag was being flown at nearly every location. In dedication to the
USA and acknowledgment to her mother, Candy
created an American flag using a very small crochet needle and 100%
US cotton thread.
There were over 290 one inch squares, taking four months to finish
creating this granny square replica.
It, along with several other projects, including photography, took a
blue ribbon at the fair and was placed in a “center stage” location.
Now Candy was on her way!
Candy continues to enter her projects into the fair and continues to
bring home ribbons.
As a business major, Candy was not given the opportunity to focus on the
artistic side of her life. Without training Candy worked in areas
that she felt would give her the satisfaction an artist receives from
her work. She knew how to
crochet, she knew how to shop for exotic beads and she targeted making
items that incorporated the two.
Somehow, the Queen of Beads came into being.
Candy has donated her works to the Thompson Falls Library, the Sanders
County Historical Society, Sanders County Coalition for Families and
others.
She has participated in the Sanders County Fair and made two necklaces
for the local sheriff out of Elk teeth.
She regularly sells her “animal friendly” bear necklaces at her Sanders
County Mall store on eBay and continues to expand her works to move in
different directions. Every
year in the Sanders County Christmas Bazaar Candy creates new gifts. This year she discovered ICE YARN from
Turkey
and has incorporated that into scarves, necklaces, chokers, pony and
bracelets.
You will find an ever changing world of artwork with Candy as she never
stands still. Now she is creating computer generated
original works that she hopes to incorporate into her future works. She and her husband now run Beaver
Creek IT Consulting and have designed over
65
websites. She has designed and manages the
RiverView Arts website and has built a website for the
Thompson Falls Chamber of Commerce.
Their websites are
www.beavercreekconsultants.com and
cyberkitchennet.com.
04/06/2009
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