I decided at the beginning of 2017 that this would be a year of drawing. I joined a life drawing group, I had a month-long drawing AIR at Salem Art Association’s Annex, I drew my friends, my family, my food (and WITH my food), my garden, my ideas, jokes, everything. That was the idea…everything, everyday. […]
I know there is possibly nothing worse than other people’s trip stories, but hey…my blog. (My readership is down to virtually nothing anyway, so why not??!) Please skip happily over this. After a long hot summer, I set off on a trip which began with five days in the studio of my oldest friend Carolyn […]
My blog posts have fallen off (and so have my statistics!)…maybe blogs are going the way of all things in this fast world of ours? My need to provide a narrative thread for this blog is slipping as I do more and more on Instagram…quick image, one line…done. The trouble with it is you have […]
I published this on my birthday in 2009 and every year since, but I still think it tells my story so let’s go again… Today is my birthday and I’ve attained a certain age. I have plans, things to do, places to go. But today I’m looking back. (I tried to cut my own bangs–oops.) […]
I’m having fun this month, doing one of the things I love to do…drawing. In 2010 I was lucky enough to be the first Artist in Residence at the Annex at Bush Barn Art Center. The luxury of having a project-oriented studio was new to me and very exciting, and I so appreciate this program […]
I guess if you have read this blog a time or two you know that looking at art is a major part of my universe. Just reviewing this past week, I see all the ways art enlivens my own life and thinking and experience, and I hope this is true for you too. As we […]
The first week of January. Snow. In an effort to get the year started right, I’ve been in one studio or another of mine every day. In both cases I entered into long reveries about studios and how lucky we are who have them…alternate realities really. They don’t have to be clean and tidy (though […]
We went to the studio before the holiday…(my window is the top right) …up the 17 stairs… into the studio to rehang after the nice paint job by Dayna and Tory…what a gift… …the south wall… the west wall and we did the other two, leaving the work space for a later date and we […]
yellow…caution… Okay, it wasn’t my favorite week…I’m seeking a way to think about this world, not with much success, and a card arrived that sort of expressed my basic feeling about everything… …a week in which I allowed my “condition” to let me burrow into things that give me comfort… But a week in which […]
Red means stop. It’s hard to stop. Mostly we don’t, we soldier on, keep working, keep planning. But sometimes things just grind to a halt. When my father died one of my brothers said “Sometimes things just have to stop…” and that’s the truth. I am in one of those periods of suspended animation, but […]
On The Way 