“Unencumbered” 8×10, oil on canvas, framed. This painting took lots of different twists and turns in a dance not unsimilar to the one depicted in its final iteration. Whereas sometimes I know exactly what I want to work on in a painting session, today’s was all about just seeing what would happen. How freeing it […]
“Out of the Blue” 6×6, oil on wood panel, framed. My morning meditation today was on Joy, her capriciousness, her constant surprise, her inability to be invoked or beckoned as though her very nature is to arrive when not expected. In cleaning up my work space recently, I stumbled upon an unopened jar of cold […]
“Welcome, Beauty” 6×6, oil on canvas, framed. It feels a little early in the month for this kind of thing, but, no matter, today I took my palette knife to what seemed to be a perfectly fine painting and scratched off everything I could, thinking this one would just end up in the discard pile. […]
“Audacity” 4×4, oil on canvas, framed. My husband pointed out to me recently (several times actually) that I do not bring the same kind of carefree boldness to sharing my writing as I do to sharing my paintings. That there’s hesitancy there. As much as I wish he weren’t, he is right. I tell people […]
“Carry Me” 8×8, oil on canvas, framed. Before January began I knew that routine, ritual, would be my path to discovery. That I would get up at the same time, start my practice the same way– uncover the unknown in the painfully familiar. I am still dumbfounded by the attack yesterday on the city in […]
“Invitation to Wonder” 6×6, oil on canvas, framed. Back in November I took a look around my studio space and realized that the chaos I’d been working in was making me, each day, less and less inclined to want to be there. My supplies were thrown on random shelves; I had a box in the […]
“To begin, begin” -William Wordsworth What is 31 in 31? 31 in 31 is taking on one creative, self-expressive or self-nurturing pursuit once a day for the entire month of January and sharing that pursuit in a supportive online community. Artists, poets, writers, musicians, doodlers, yogis, photographers, knitters, and daily walk takers have all found […]
One of the first things I remember learning as a child was the concept of patterns. Teachers seemed to be impressed when you could identify one– circle, circle, star, square; circle, circle, star, square. When I was older, they used the same concept but in the service of math; on standardized tests we’d have to […]
After kicking off 2024 with a (mostly) small painting a day in my annual 31 in 31 practice, I was ready to think BIG. I wanted to spend more time with my paintings working with patterns in layers that needed the ones beneath them to amount to anything. In January I was the hare– panting, […]
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