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 Seattle and Los Angeles....
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A Quiet Morning I 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 palettes or...
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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 ideas in the...
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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 myself in them, in a...
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At the end of 2021, I received an invitation from a curator at The Art Spirit Gallery in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. She was planning a regional group art exhibition inspired by the book Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel. I love the book and am greatly inspired by...
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