“Gratitude” 8×8, oil on canvas, framed Towards the end of last year, I started a gratitude practice: a morning stream-of-consciousness ritual of writing down and giving thanks for every thing that comes to mind without censure or editing. I am often amazed at what comes up– descriptions of the leaves dancing on the trees outside […]
“Memory” 6×6, oil on canvas, framed I wasn’t sure how to finish my painting today, and when I started adding little swipes of paint in rows, it felt like I was counting, like a person lost in the wild marking the days by carving lines into the trunk of a tree Today I am invoking […]
“Asking to be Seen” 6×6, oil on canvas, framed I think about color a lot– when I’m cooking, getting dressed, taking a walk, even when I’m trying to solve a problem. When I teach painting, I always start with the color wheel because it holds simple truths most of us never really learn. The colors […]
“Patience” 10×10, oil on canvas, framed 31 in 31 is always an exercise in patience. I want so much to jump ahead, to sing the song without having to go through all the verses. Patience is visiting today in the form of a little bird landing on a relaxed, reclining figure not so much playing […]
“Witness” 6×6, oil on canvas, framed. Kelly Cherry wrote a poem called “Advice to a Friend who Paints” that I read quite some time ago. This morning that title kept simmering to the surface of my mind, and, since I am wary of unsolicited advice and since I am in fact a person who paints, […]
“Spinning my Wheels” 8×8, oil on canvas, framed. I had planned for today’s piece to be about gratitude but what kept coming up was gratitude for this tension between change and constancy. So I went with that. Change The potter’s wheel spins 240 revolutions per minute, constant from a lump of clay you form an […]
“Hope” 6×6, oil on panel, framed. I have forever loved Emily Dickinson’s poem “Hope is the Thing with Feathers” and returned to it time and time again especially in my decade + of painting birds. What I notice most is how my birds have changed over the years, and with them, perhaps, my notion of […]
“Waiting for Inspiration” 8×8, oil on canvas, framed. There is a nervousness to every 31 in 31. Certainly the inspiration will dry up eventually? Surely the words won’t always come. And then what? I wonder if sometimes the business of my life– routine doctor checkups and soccer games and chopping onions and tending to an […]
“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 […]
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