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 happy and free now,...
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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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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 what led me to create...
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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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