The website is pretty much done, the renovations are beginning to wind down with the biggest disruptions for this phase complete. Soon, we’ll take a break. There are big projects to come, but, frankly, we’ve had enough for the moment. Living in a renovation is not for the faint of heart. One of those big […]
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Updating
In the midst of renovations in the new house, I thought I would take on the renovation of the website as well. With WordPress releasing Gutenberg, I figured it was time to update and make the site much more functional. It works on mobile devices but it’s lumpy, so it can be and will be […]
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New Beginnings
I’m sitting on my old couch looking at the chipboard floors of my new house. Finally. We had the carpet removed as soon as we took possession. The previous owners had two large black dogs and it has taken weeks to subdue the fur, tufted under baseboards, stuck to walls and consequently on the tip […]
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Finding Water En Plein Air
I have no studio. I haven’t had one for over a year now. Trying to paint in a dining room with constantly shifting light proved to be too much. And after what has been a soul crushing year that continues its punishing stress, I needed a shift in perspective. Extreme stress has a way of […]
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Revisiting Oklahoma Brings a Prize
There is a column in OVAC’s magazine (Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition) called Ekphrasis which connects the disciplines of poetry and art allowing them to inspire each other. I like to believe paintings or photographs are visual poetry, but they have often inspired me to write. Like painting, there are lots of failures and mediocre works […]
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Bugs and Blooms
Spring is slowly arriving across the mountains of North Carolina. The birds are busy, the daffodils and tree blooms are bursting, in spite of overnight temperatures leaving shallow puddles slicked with ice. Tiny insects congregate in the broad strips of sunlight that can, for now, still penetrate to the forest floor. Their tiny wings bend […]
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