For the last few weeks I’ve been going down a rabbit hole. Unsatisfied with the work I have been doing, I wanted to do more. Reading the latest books from artists/writers Brain Rutenberg (A Little Long Time) and John Seed (Disrupted Realism), I have been thinking about what art is, where the best of it […]
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Transformation
It seems I’m surrounded by symbols of transformation, in dreams and at my front door. I found a dead female Promethea Silk Moth on my front doorstep last year. I kept it because it was beautiful. I knew at some point the time would come to paint it. This week, that time came. The name […]
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Seriously!!
There is a road that runs through cattle pastures, not too far from here. I would park the car and walk the length of it passing all kinds of cows, most of which I couldn’t confidently identify, except for the longhorns. They were largely reserved and watched me at a distance, but a few would […]
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Déjà Vu
Déjà vu? In 2004, I did a dimensional mixed media piece called “Forest Alchemy”. I submitted it and was accepted as a guest artist at a new gallery for a local studio tour. It was my first art sale to a perfect stranger and I was so excited. I did a handful of these mixed […]
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Working Through It
This painting is a mix of the symbols of grief and playfulness. We humans don’t always remember to play, but crows do! And they are creative. The poem below came first, so for some play, I painted this little crow! In the comments and in social media since the last post there was the theme […]
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A New Painting
I started this one in the early days of the pandemic. It is both a very personal and universal painting (I hope) . I didn’t intend for it to go here. It was supposed to be a simpler painting of an abandoned house. The child and the balloon were spontaneous, and demanded to be added. […]
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