Graduation

This weekend my daughter graduates from college.   Yes, she is one of the girls above… I feel like it was me not that long ago.  The fact that I can even remember 33 years ago when I was the college graduate amazes me.  Where did the time go?   When I was in...

First Fridays

This weekend is First Fridays of Greenville.   It is a cool event and Gallery Crawl that happens every First Friday of the month in my new hometown. Exhibitions open. Artists open their studios and the community gets a good dose of art and creativity.  It is one of...

Grace

  Last weekend I was in Atlanta… I got to serve as juror for the Exhibition of the Southeastern Pastel Society. So last week I traveled south and attended the Opening of the show.  It was really cool to see a large gallery full of images that I had...

The Studio

The new studio space is coming along…. Books and paints and pastels. Floodlights and brushes and rags.  All finding a home.  I am not a super neat-nick, but I do love knowing where everything is when I am working.  Every time I climb these steps up to the second...

Keys

There is power in owning a key.    It opens doors to possibility. The keys above are to my new studio space at the Greenville Center for Creative Arts where I have been teaching the last few months. I have been on the waiting list for a studio since last summer before...

Rap

  My son likes rap…. And so I have tried to learn about it.  It is a nice thing to be alone with your 16-year old and have something to chat about in the car on the way back and forth to school. It has led to some very interesting conversations between my son and...