Joined Eggs, Alma Chaney

“Although I most frequently work on wood panels, I always enjoy the challenge of working three-dimensionally. This year the hardest part was keeping my thumbs out of the wet paint!”

oil and silverpoint on eggs, with wire and wood stand, bead, and braided cotton cord

Alma Chaney is a painter living and working in Seattle, Washington. Since decorating her first Open Fields egg, she has earned a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. When she isn’t painting, she can be found just about anyplace with her nose in a book.