How Places Inspire Me Creatively“To live would be an awfully big adventure.” – JM Barrie, Peter Pan.For a long time I wondered how to make the art come. I didn’t have a problem creating from a design brief or making beautiful visuals for others back in my design studio days, but I struggled when it came to making the kind …
Lessons From the Shifting Seasons
Lessons From the Shifting Seasons“The year will move on no matter what, but by paying attention to it, feeling its beat, and noticing the moments of transition—perhaps even taking time to think about what we want from the next phase in the year—we can get the measure of it.” – Katherine May, WinteringHere in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of …
A New Beginning, A New Enchantment
A New Beginning, A New EnchantmentThere are a hundred shades of green outside the studio window, wildflowers and forests all around, love and laughter every evening with family, delicious local butter, crisp New York apples, handmade lamb sausage, thunderstorms! Life has turned a rich technicolor hue since we landed in Upstate NY’s Finger Lakes region where we now call home. …
Goodbye California
We are MOVING! We are leaving behind the ethereal salt marshes and magical oak forests of the majestic California Central Coast for the enchanted waterfalls, lush woods and verdant hills of quaint, Upstate New York! I can hardly believe it now that it’s finally happening, we never thought we’d leave California. I had planned on growing roots here, my art bound to the land my heart beats to.
The Color-Shine Project
Black Lives Matter“No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger than its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.” —Marian Anderson Hopeful voices and inspiring work for a conscious, caring …
On Fall Cocooning & Rejuvenation…
On Fall Cocooning & Rejuvenation”Close both eyes to see with the other eye.” -Rumi ***** How do we know when its time to retreat? For me it begins with a restless yearning for stillness. The kind of replenishing stillness that quietly slips away from my every day the more I fill it up with digital noise and to-do lists. I …
Learning To See Again : Creative Lessons from Meditation
Creative Lessons from Meditation“When we do not trouble ourselves about whether or not something is a work of art, if we just act in each moment with composure and mindfulness, each minute of our life is a work of art.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh ***** I’ve realized in recent years that painting is like meditating. The harder one grasps, the more …
Books for Wandering and Walking
Books on Walking and Wandering“A journey implies a destination, so many miles to be consumed, while a walk is its own measure, complete at every point along the way.” ” -Thomas A. Clark, In Praise of Walking I’ve walked in the pink of dawn as the world is waking up, and in the blazing noonday sun to nap under redwood …
32 Wonder Walks Into the New Year
32 Wonder Walks Into the New Year“A walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.” ― -Robert MacFarlane, ‘The Old Ways, A Journey on Foot’ Dear Wonder-Seekers, Short days, cold evenings, holiday gatherings and cozy blankets by the fire make December some of the toughest months for Wonder-Walking. And yet, with the whirlwind of the …
Repercussions of A Creative Adventure
Repurcussions of A Creative Adventure“The life that I could still live, I should live, and the thoughts that I could still think, I should think.” —C. G. Jung, The Red Book I had talked of a yearning for creative solitude in a recent Travelogue entry, but not even then, fresh from Summer’s creative adventure, could I have ever foresaw what would change in …