Anyone who knows me has seen my sketchbooks, volumes of them at this point, in which I capture the gesture of a place. Most recently working with thin marker and watercolor, I especially like the motion of an urban environment, and I use color and line to record often very busy scenes. Here in Port […]
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Wonderment Driven by Boundless Expans...
“Making art is a process of wonderment driven by boundless expansion.” Guillame Wolf I painted for this February show from early December until 3 days before the opening event, making enough art to fill the Stonehenge gallery walls in a satisfying profusion. After all these years of art making, I still step back with a […]
Discovering Persimmons
I was introduced to this fruit this holiday season — and was enchanted by their beauty. At a neighborhood Christmas Eve brunch, some California visitors arrived with a brimming basket of the small merry globes to share, picked from their yard. I always thought this fruit was only edible when mushy-ripe, which never sounded appealing… […]
Anatomy of a Painting
I am always fascinated to see artist work in process, glimpses into studios, sketches and stages along the way, giving so much insight about the final result that hangs before me. My summer trip to London included a trip to the Matisse exhibit at the Tate (now showing at MoMA in NYC) and it was a […]
Wet chickens
Here’s some new work that won’t see the gallery pages, since they were commissioned and have flown the coop already. The paint was practically wet when they left! I like commissions, and take the requests as an opportunity to paint a small series — at least two and sometimes more — giving the patron a […]
Travel as inspiration
At its best, vacation is time away from routine, with wide open spaces of receiving, listening, and leaning toward new experience. It is a wonderful avenue of inspiration. With that intention, a predominant theme of my recent UK visit was Art. (other themes were family, history and gin-&-tonics). Visits to the richness of UK museums […]
Taking it to color
Picking Tomatoes Now I have taken the sketches from the previous post, and brought out my loaner antique hand press to bring line into color and form, through the medium of the monoprint. Printmaking is like Christmas… feeling the anticipation from painting on plexiglass/acrylic plates, soaking paper, waiting for hours or overnight… to bring the plate […]
Feeling the harvest
The mornings are cool, the nights crisp, the days sunny and breezy and dry. Ah, August, with your prescient glimpse of autumn. I took the opportunity of the still-light evening to sketch my friend Christine in her garden. Who knows what the sketches will seed? Last time I drew Christine, it was winter and […]
Vicarious Travels
I’ve just finished up 5 new paintings commissioned by a couple of motorcycle travelers… they toured cities and roads around Europe and wanted a wall of paintings to remember their adventures by. It was fun to “put my Europe on” and bring my style to the photos they sent me. My previous city-life paintings are […]
Playing with New Tools
I had a lot of fun playing with Autodesk Sketchbook for an Opus Creative project — into the wee hours this last week. Deadlines aren’t so bad when there is drawing involved! Sketchbook combines aspects of Photoshop, Illustrator and has a really intuitive interface. For my part, I was supplying a sketch for part of […]
Enjoying Artistic License
My recent visit to New Mexico was the tail end of a 10-day road trip that went through the Canyonlands of Utah. Santa Fe got added to the itinerary because of a lovely exhibit currently showing at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. I just had to see it. “The Faraway” features familiar O’Keeffe paintings of Northern […]
Daylily Thoughts of Blooming
Just finished this new painting as a commission for dear Uncle Micky, a prolific and enthusiastic creator himself. He wanted a bright spot of daylily on his wall, and who can blame him? Spring rainy days need a little help from art to remind us of the spectrum of blooming ahead. I painted this piece […]
Artists Among Us on a Sunny Weekend
This weekend (May 12-13) you can see some new bird paintings at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral’s 12th annual “Artists Among Us” show. Allan Oliver, former owner of Onda Gallery, helped to expand this year’s artist roster by reaching out to those of us who had showed in his gallery in the past. Trinity is a lovely […]
Back to the Garden
New year. Renewed energy. Picking up the threads of creation. After I pack away the Christmas lovely clutter, my studio can once again become making-in-motion. I have three areas of activity to return to (good thing I have lots of tables!). One is what I am calling “Following the Thread” series, with collage, watercolor and […]
Studio Alive
Just getting the studio ready for the open showing was invigorating — we cleaned and organized and cleared and made loveliness out of my ordinary creative chaos. And then having lively celebration and sharing as many people showed up, all throughout the day, was great fun. I loved telling the stories behind the pieces that […]
New explorations
If you come to my studio open house (or visit another time!) you will see my current work in progress, which is a little different than what you see on the gallery pages here. I am using old family documents to provide the ground for watercolor and gouache paintings. Subject matter, so far, is from […]