Signs & Symbols
Lately I’ve been exploring symbols. For my birthday last summer I got a couple of books on symbols. They explore, in great detail, the symbols humans have been making throughout time, religion and culture. From the 20,000 years old red
Painting With an Open Heart
This Sunday I cleared away all obligations for the day, eschewed social media and turned off my phone and turned on the music - this day I felt like painting loose and free. Most of my painting these days are
Surviving Abundance – a reoccurring theme
Every year at this time I say I’m not going to get crazy with all the holiday this and that, and every year I really try to keep it under control. But the gatherings and the baking and the making
The Tenacity of Life
Pleasure is spread through the earth in stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find. -William Wordsworth I went for a walk this morning with my old dog Lucky. She sniffed and barked at birds and phantoms, and followed the scent
Listening to the Landscape
I didn’t sleep very well last night so I almost talked myself out of my morning hike but I rallied after some oatmeal and a big mug of coffee to take a loop through the woods and out into a
The View from Above
As some of you remember I have been working on some aerial view art quilts. I’m using photo images taken from a plane to create iPad drawings then having those drawings printed large on fabric then quilting. (see these links
Setting the Table
As you all probably know if you have been following for awhile I have been spray painting everything I can think of; fabric, wood, paper anything and everything is fair game for my spray paint experiments and I am in
Dia De Los Muertos
As you know fall is in the air and Halloween is just around the corner. I like to take this opportunity to share some of the fabulous art that surrounds the Dia de los Muertos tradition in Mexico. The majority
Miracles, the Meaning of Life, oh yeah and Pinterest…
Raise your hand if you love Pinterest….(my hand is up by the way) . If you don’t know what Pinterest is, it is like the idea folder and recipes binder and pattern box you have tried to keep up with
Yesterday it Rained – Today I walked the Labyrinth
Yesterday it rained. It rained eight tenths of an inch. Such a gift in this parched, scorched part of the world. This morning, as the clouds pushed east and the sun rose amid the mist of yesterday’s rain, I walked