When all I have been learning, doing, and striving toward comes together I will know it. It will feel like ease, and passion, and joy flowing from a single grounded source – my own heart. That moment feels as if it may be upon me with this newest exhibition going up June 6th. There are […]
Thriving in 2022
Do you know the meaning of Night Watch? It is new to me. An article originally printed in Southern Living’s December issue introduced me to the meaning of this African American tradition also called “Freedom’s Eve.” That this article, in itself, was curated into SL’s Christmas issue is a clue that our world has already […]
Beginners Mind
With the 2021 Studio Tour half completed I have started to look ahead to what is next. I have always done this. In the middle of any cycle of manifestation I have come to recognize my work is done. I have visualized something into being and now is the time to simply let go to […]
Portrait Sessions & Pittsboro Gallery of Arts
A Studio Tour that occurs at year’s end is a fertile time for reflection. 2021 was about discovery. I discovered I feel most challenged painting people and I love it. I am grateful for the portrait sessions held this year by Jj Jiang at his gallery – Village Art Circle in Cary. The studies on […]
Smelt Gallery of Art
The Plant, for those of you who do not know, is a magnificent experiment in artisanal entrepreneurship built on a solid foundation of compassion and stewardship. This property was originally an aluminum smelting plant, hence it’s name. Along with the newly refurbished art gallery – it now has a door and actual gallery lights – […]
It’s Only Natural
I had a marvelous time last night at the reception held for the Chatham Artist’s Guild Studio Tour which begins December 4th at 10am. This preview show at THE ARTCENTER, 300 E. Main St. Carrboro, NC will be up thru Nov 29th. Make sure to stop by to see my painting along with works by […]
Plein Air Painting is Amazing
I participated in Paint It Orange in Orange County Arts Commission’s 5th Annual Plein Air painting event. 56 artists from 4 states spread out thru Hillsborough, Carrboro, and Chapel Hill to seek something to paint outside. This was not my first time painting outdoors, but it was my first time participating in this event. Even […]
Primarily Primaries
My new watercolor series, entitled Primarily Primaries, celebrates farmers and farmer’s markets. This series is intended to underscore the connections people make with farmers at the market. We non-agrarians fundamentally need farmers and the products they produce. Farmers, in turn, need us to buy their locally grown produce and products. Gathering again at these markets, […]
The Way Forward
“This is how I resign from the victimhood of present knowing and dwell in the powerful ever changing now moment.” As I witness the dissolution of our traditional world, I clearly see things are never going to be the same again. I also understand that my and our world’s present moment is merely a picturing […]
Change Never Changes
What becomes of a Firewalker one week later? Or 2 years later? Yes, you read that right, “I have walked on fire.” It was a New Years Day thing to do. It was a lovely drive in the mountains and an exciting adventure to have with my sister. It was cold and convival and strange […]
How Did I Get Here?
“I was fortunate to sell a few paintings during a 2017 showing of my watercolors in a local cafe. It is my most fervent wish these sales bode well for a fruitful artistic career. Please know this for me and know too that this next iteration of my life will integrate lightness and joy with […]
Gravity & Grace
“Find the thought which is your great oppressor; find the King-Pin. In the logging camps in the Spring, the logs are sent down the rivers in great numbers. Sometimes the logs become crossed and cause a jam; the men look for the log causing the jam (they call it the King-Pin), straighten it, and the logs […]
