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 […]
Perseverance and Process
April 23rd, 2009Flamingos beckon
February 25th, 2009Study 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, 2009Study 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, 2009Sunflower-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, 2009Sunflower-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, 2008Mahatma 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, 2008Bent 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 […]