Perseverance and Process

April 23rd, 2009
Perseverance and Process

So very much has been consuming my energies for the last few weeks I have been sadly neglectful of this blog. A wonderful Kidz Aartz group spent a week with me making clay wind chimes & pins and acrylic paintings. A boy and his rat… Acrylic painting I've been working on the new website, which […]

Flamingos beckon

February 25th, 2009

Study in White It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.-Romain Rolland I am yearning to be in a warm place, even though  skiing in our sun-drenched Vermont woods was lovely today. So I am painting sunflowers, continuing with the triptych that I have already begun. This morning I poured layers […]

Flamingos beckon

February 25th, 2009
Flamingos beckon

Study in White It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.-Romain Rolland I am yearning to be in a warm place, even though  skiing in our sun-drenched Vermont woods was lovely today. So I am painting sunflowers, continuing with the triptych that I have already begun. This morning I poured layers […]

Midnight sunflowers bloom

February 18th, 2009

Sunflower-night-sky “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time" Tolstoy Here's the beginning- well, far from the beginning actually, but the first view that has any detail that can be discerned… At least I hope the petals of some of the sunflowers are visible. It's a triptych measuring 30" x 54" and is a […]

Midnight sunflowers bloom

February 18th, 2009
Midnight sunflowers bloom

Sunflower-night-sky “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time" Tolstoy Here's the beginning- well, far from the beginning actually, but the first view that has any detail that can be discerned… At least I hope the petals of some of the sunflowers are visible. It's a triptych measuring 30" x 54" and is a […]

Bellevue Artsfair Review

August 2nd, 2008

   Mahatma Ghandi    “The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still, small voice' within me.” Thank goodness for that still, small voice that keeps me going when REASON says to just go take a nap.Bellevue Artsfair was a beautiful show, but exhausting. Of course, I started out exhausted after weeks of […]

Hurtling onwards to the finish… with intention

July 17th, 2008
Hurtling onwards to the finish... with intention

Bent Bowl Nest The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance, and this, not the external manner and detail, is true reality. – Aristotle Trying to achieve both- outward and inward. And to suspend the disbelief that such odd, and interesting things actually might truly be […]