I am writing this at 3 am. Wide awake and packed. Later today I head to Italy for my workshop in Cortona. So slowly I have been rotating my sleep schedule to get more on “Italian time.” Last week I missed posting my blog because I came back from...
“Shoot for the moon; even if you miss it you will land among the stars” -Norman Vincent Peale I have no desire to go to the moon, but apparent my painting does… This month NASA will launch another addition to the Lunar Codex Project to the...
Last week I ran a 3-day workshop in Asheville, North Carolina in the Blue Ridge Mountains just north of Greenville. There are still many businesses there recovering from Hurricane Helene last Fall and I wanted to help one out so I booked an entire lodge during the...
2013 was a big year for me. I had been on a hiatus from painting for a few years due to my mom fighting cancer. For two years I took her to oncologists and to one chemo treatment after another. I had 3 young children and she had been the reason I had painted at all...
“You’ll realize that you’ve always been able to speak a secret language, one that has no boundaries, because you have no nationality. Art is your homeland” -Fredrick Backman, from the novel, “My Friends” I have been speaking...
An artist friend gave me a copper panel from Raymar. I may be in love…. It is little- 10″ x 10″ which is tiny for me. I figured it was just big enough for a small, snuggly portrait of my daughter and my grandson. I started it a few months ago and...
