ARTIST JOURNAL | Notes from the studio
Inspiration, new work, and stories about life and travel.
Seattle Downtown Art Walk: Outlier at Kimpton Hotel Monaco
If you’re in the Seattle area, I’d like to invite you to stop by Outlier at the Kimpton Hotel Monaco for the Seattle Downtown Art Walk. I’ll be there on Friday, August 25th from 5 to 8pm (ish) for the opening and again on Friday September 22nd. I...
My California | Three New Paintings and Lifelong Inspiration
Alive With BeginningI’m obsessed with the plant life in Southern California. I even unintentionally had a bedroom with a palm tree beach mural when I was in high school. It wasn’t Southern California, probably French Polynesia or another island...
Summer Art Sale Through July 16th
It started with July’s full moon / supermoon — the urge to release. New moons are a time to plant seeds, full moons are a time of release. There's something about tides and other stuff too, but I can't remember everything I read, especially not...
Art Inspired by Travel: Central California Coast | Santa Cruz, Davenport, Pescadero, San Gregorio
At the end of April — early May I got an opportunity to visit a friend of mine that I’ve known since college. We met in Louisiana and both ended up finding home on the West Coast. She’s been living in the Bay Area while I’ve shuttled between...
Art and Life: Through Darkness Comes Depth
One of the goals that often comes up in art classes, journaling workshops, or creativity courses is to “return to and create from your childhood — the time when you felt most happy and free.” That’s never been a useful exercise for me. I feel more...
Morning Reading — Radical Wholeness by Philip Shepherd
A Quiet MorningI usually start every morning by reading part of a nonfiction book while I have coffee. Sometimes it’s a book that I’ve already read and am in the process of revisiting for fresh insight. Maybe it’s an art book and I'm studying color...
In My Sketchbook: Sketchbook Pages April-May 2023
A sketchbook page that I did from photos I took in Scotts Valley and the central coast in California.I’ve recently re-started my sketchbook practice. I used to spend a ton of time working in sketchbooks and that practice became a springboard for...
New Art, A Trip To Los Angeles, And How My Brain Was Tricking Me
Earlier this year I had an epiphany, or an “aha moment” as our friend Oprah might say. I realized that I had been holding myself back from things that I want. Like, without even KNOWING it. I’d become so used to my daily routines that I trapped...
Press: Business of Home | Original Art Trade Program for Interior Designers
Last week the interior design trade publication Business of Home shared my interior designer trade program with their readers. I loved corresponding with Caroline Biggs and I appreciate her enthusiasm for my art and the program! Caroline covered...