goldfinger Birgit, gold gold

It needs a lot of preparations before the gold can be glued on wood. about 9 different layers are underneath.

I made a drawing of a Ginkoleave(? how do you spell leave. of a tree) Half of the leave is grey half is gold-pure gold

this is a small piece of wood, that looks like a flying bird

I have spent the last weekend in Neresheim a monastery with a great church, built by Balthasar Neumann. A famous Barock builder.

There I visited a workshop for putting pure gold on objects

greetings to all of you

goldfinger Birgit

Rainy Westcoast

I travelled in my autumn holidays to Bristol to meet Mick again.

He had so many great plans for this week.

Sometimes we got a little wet and cold

But as you see sometimes we had sunshine

Here in Devon in Lynmouth we spent some days.

What a pity that ist was raining so hard when this lovely man made a firework for me at the beach.

I will be back there in summer.

Der goldene Apfel

Welch ein Glueck wenn man fuer seine Freundin einen Preis gestalten darf und die andere Freundin die Laudatio liest.

My friend Uschi Kempin received the award " The golden apple" from die Kemptener women list Kempt'ner Frauenliste a political engaged group of woman also elected in the city parliament.

Uschi Kempin is since 25 years engaged in green politics, environment and protecting the natural resources . She was one of the founders of the Kempodium

A big hall full of people celebrated with us this event.

3 Freundinnen von links Ingrid, Uschi und ich

Ingrid hielt die Laudatio, Uschi bekam den Preis verliehen und ich habe den Apfel gestaltet

Each year one woman of our city gets the golden apple for her charity, political, social engagement for the society.

The apple is each year created specially for the winning person.

Uschi likes the natur, rivers, moores and mountains of the Allgaeu.

So I created the sculpture with a big stone from our river Iller and ther I found this interesting piece of wood there too. They are connected with an iron stick. The golden apple lays in the bottom of the wood

I love creating sculptures with wood.Next weekend I will learn to fix gold on wood so I can create more exclusive pieces.

Birgit proud of her piece of art and much more proud to have so very special friends

I hug you all