Drawing Connections

I’m feeling grateful and pleased that my painting, Head On Again, recently won first place at the 2024 Cold Wax International Juried Exhibition. Grateful, pleased and … lucky. What does luck have to do with it?

I fell into a period of creative hibernation after my brother Jim passed away suddenly in November. I was not expecting grief to take such a toll on my creative drive and ability. One thing that has helped is studio time that is free from intention and instead focused on simply enjoying the suspended moment of the present.

In this short post, I reflect on the recent drivers of change in my artwork.

My new space is affecting my work in both expected and unexpected ways.

In this post, I share what I was thinking about while creating The Garden Makes Eve.

My Self Portrait, 2020, reflects what was going on in my mind at the height of the Covid-19 quarantine.

Expressing and exploring a love of color through the muted hues in my artwork.

An easy and inexpensive solution for organizing and storing large flat sheets of paper in a small studio.