Best of Missouri Hands

Touch the Paper

Posted at August 18, 2006 11:30

By Kristy G. Flick

Lois Jacobs loves working with her hands. Her love of working with paper began in her preschool years when her mother provided her with scissors, glue, magazines, and boxes. She worked for days creating paper designs and little paper worlds that she kept in a shoe box. “Even though I love to draw, paint, weave, and make stuff, I’ve tried to concentrate on my papers,” she explains. Lois likes working with paper best because she can make paper come alive by making it two and three-dimensional, and she wants others to touch her art. “Paper can stand on its own with things I embed, or it can be the groundwork to another piece of art,” she says.

Although she was training for nursing, Lois discovered her true passion for art while in college. She now teaches her love of art to elementary students at Valley Park, near St Louis.

“I go to bed at night thinking about an interesting idea. Then I get up early in the morning and try it!”

See this Best of Missouri Hands member’s art at www.relatedbits.com.

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