We are not a formal group.  Therese just loves us and the bog and named our little group and tucked us up on the web on this website.  Read a bit about us below, and check our pages under Their Projects.

The founder of the bog artists, on a mid-life whim, Therese moved to Alaska . . . Anchorage to be exact.  Searching for the perfect place to live, she fell in love with the bog, the Klatt bog area near the Turnagain Arm bluffs where the winds are often strong and mighty, and the place that the sea, bog & pond birds and the moose like to call home. 

One day Therese met Laura. She found out she lived across the bog, on the east edge, and that they were birds of a feather – see their mirrored lists of favorites.  Laura even dragged Therese to the hospital and back out to the bog.  Their love of rocks is unparalleled, uh, unless you cross the bog to Carmel’s, or go out of the bog over to Amelia’s.

OK, Annie doesn’t exactly live across the bog, but when you see her flower portraits you’ll forget all about that frivolous fact.  She loves boggy gardens and lives on the edge of a bog on the east side of town and must travel through our south-side bog to come visit us, so she’s truly an Across the Bog artist.

Carmel truly does live across the bog, straight north from my place.  If I had a better aim and could throw a goodly distance, I could knock out one of her windows!  But for heaven’s sake, why would I want to do that?  And besides, I might hurt a goose, or a moose, or other animals that might be running loose!

Though high on the hillside, not low in the bog, they are the main reason why Therese ever leaves the bog:  to go visit their rock garden – the realization of a dream that she had when she was 5 years old.  Many of Amelia’s hillside rock garden plants now make their home in the Gramercy bog garden, joining these artists forever as one.