Grey is Not a Color

I am back! Happy New Year! And in typical fashion I have a New Years’ resolution:  Paint, and then market the shit out of my paintings. Sounds pretty simple right? So on the advice of a friend and marketing guru, in the first week of January one thing I decided to do...

Pastel Peeps

As I write this I am now flying over Austin, Texas on my way back home to Greenville, South Carolina. There was a flurry of teaching, jurying and chatting a lot about pastels and Larry the Light Beam at my workshop. I really do like teaching a portrait class again in...

Pastels To Go

As I write this I am flying over South Carolina. I am heading back to Texas for another workshop. I have another opportunity to take a handful of artists and have them forever changed in their mindset about the amazing, dusty medium of pastel. I love shaking up...

Open Studios

I am SO happy to be included in Greenville Open Studios this weekend!  143 chosen artists open their studios to the public all across Greenville, SC. A big part of our requirement is to show our processes of how we work.  So I am ready to show my “yellow...

Finding the Grace

As I have gotten older I have repeatedly asked myself one question- “Who am I as an artist?”  I have been on a varied path in my art.  I have bounced around and struggled.  I have started and stopped different ideas and projects. And I have found myself...