I believe I was born dreaming. There hasn’t been a time I did not believe I was Artist. My...
It is easy when we are tired or busy or both. It is easy when we feel a lacking...
It’s been awhile. Since I painted and didn’t feel frustrated or bored. I needed a break and I took...
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All of life on the canvas is a walk of grace versus boundaries. There are many questions to ask...
He is constantly making all things new within and without. I see His wonder working power breathing everything into...
I’ve sat so many hours beside so many humans all vibrating to the same frequency of our Creator. Without...
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I decide to work within limits that will allow me to be kind to myself, giving grace where needed...
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When the leaves of Summer’s fullness and warmth, chatter and connection have fallen away, we are left with our...
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I create because I am incomplete if I don’t. It allows me to discover the voice of my heart...
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Walking through our days we spend many moments looking inward as we think our many intrusive and compulsive thoughts...
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Our lives, just like our canvases are a compilation, a collection of the strokes laid down from every moment...
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I can’t seem to separate them anymore. The more I practice each the more they become my mixed language;...
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We are challenged as artist to maintain and nourish our creative health in a world where we have constant input...
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Art for me has been an enormously therapeutic journey as it has allowed my broken parts to come together...
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The earth in its entirety trembled. I felt it first as my feet padded the ground, walking amidst the...
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With Winter skies coming and the spindly arms of trees exposed, we find ourselves coming into ourselves and into...
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In a season where thankfulness is at the heart of why we come together with those we love over foods...
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Within, without incoming, outgoing receiving, giving absorbing, reflecting We are constantly defining our “sacred space” from which all our...
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I stood in the middle of a swaying field, feeling the same breeze against my cheek that stirred the...
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Brushwork, line, composition and even representational matter constitute metaphors for my “truth.” That is to say the Artist’s Truth...
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I find in the wandering my solace, peace and deepest felt understanding of the freedom and beauty I am...
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Where the imagination is free…solitude in it’s sweetest, conversations with those we are loved by, experiences that mark chapters...
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Through the week, the day and even the hour can feel a drudgery sometimes. That’s the nature of life....
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It takes courage to stretch. But in that stretching is your beauty. And your beauty is your language. That...
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The Poetics of Space; a good book to read and a good way to think of the space you...
For most of the last two decades I longed for a life that was right-sized for my strengths, my...
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There are the times you find yourself in a heightened state of creativity and productiveness. These are magic, enlightened,...
C_ART_tographer is the title I am beginning to associate myself with. As an abstract expressionist what happens on the...
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Being in a season of low hanging fruit can only mean one thing; you are at the harvest time...
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“Everything gets its start in necessity and must finish in liberty!” This quote by Maurice Zundel struck a beautiful...
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Surrounded by circumstances this week that stretched me beyond my capacities, I found myself not fully seeing; not really...
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I feel like Christopher Columbus when I daydream about those deckle edges I am bound to explore. I know, just...
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I step into my studio this morning and sigh. It is a sigh of relief; a burden lifted. I...
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This week my thoughts ruminated on the space outside of home. Home being our first inhabited world, we establish...
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Walking today under canopies of gold and wind-stirred leaves, my eyes followed lines. Lines from the silhouettes of...
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