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Making Those Moves
Three more bits from Bianca Bosker’s memoir, Get the Picture: I knew to pay attention to artists’ decisions.Only I still didn’t fully graspwhat those decisions added up to.I’d developed a sense for whatartists do to an artwork,but not why they made those moves. I dipped the brushinto the black paint,stopped breathing,then brought the brushto the… Continue reading
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Straightforward
The following passage hit my funny bone: While trekking to galleries,I’d noticed that art devoteesspoke like they were trappedin dictionaries and being forcedto chew their way out.—Bianca Bosker, Get the Picture Hoping to avoid such tortured artspeak, here’s what I have to say about the final artplay from my recent vacation. In February I made… Continue reading
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Walk Right In
This is one of those art inquiries where my whole self just walked right in to presence, to the call and response of creating something with the limited materials I had with me, in the setting where I found myself, letting the hand-and-eye dance move through me in whatever way it would. Continue reading
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By the Sea, by the Sea
My earliest exposure to the ocean, if the water of Long Island Sound can be called ocean, probably came before I was five. I see my young self hand in hand with Grandpa Chase, early evening, summer, walking along a sea wall beside Knollwood Beach in Connecticut, sand and tidal waters to one side, weathered… Continue reading
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Back Door Art
Sometimes, I move forward and grow in my art by coming in the back door, so to speak. On vacation I felt both eager to experiment and … stuck. Couldn’t come up with starting points. To move past stuck, I took note of what was catching my eye and used those noticings as a back… Continue reading
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Getting a Move On
Dave and I have long felt moved during the lighter, warmer months of the year to take short evening walks. Lately we’ve been walking immediately after dinner in a lovely regular practice. In mentioning our practice to a friend, I learned that in Italy evening walks are A Thing: la passeggiata. La passeggiata! Suddenly our… Continue reading
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Coasting into Infinity
Let me introduce you to what is referred to as the Coastal Paradox in case you and CP have not yet met. In essence, a coastline is full of nooks and crannies made by nature. The more one zooms in, the more these inconsistencies multiply. Therefore, the length of a coastline depends on what size… Continue reading
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The Refrains of Fine Feathered Friends
What a magnificent time of year for our getaway to the coast of Maine! We spent considerable time outdoors and, with our Merlin Bird ID app, we were able to identify by sound those birds whose songs accompanied us everywhere we went. Though we didn’t see over fifty percent of the critters whose music delighted… Continue reading
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Homemaking
Most often when we travel, we rent a home/cottage/cabin, and I love the process of making that space “ours,” with all the quirky riddles a new space presents. We just returned from a great space built over a garage on a piece of property set on a couple of acres directly on Watts Cove in… Continue reading
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Awkward, Brave, and Kind
Brené Brown—researcher, storyteller, and (currently enraged) Texan who’s spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy, often closes her podcasts, articles, and conversations by inviting all to be/stay awkward, brave, and kind. That’s the spirit with which I approached my art journal during the first half of June while vacationing with Dave… Continue reading
My Story
In 2014, I grab an unexpected opportunity to paint.
To make art.
I get hooked.
In 2015 I start a blog—a diary of my life as an artist.
I post my paintings and their stories. The good, the bad, the ugly.
My compass points: bust through fear, be playful, get messy, trust my gut.
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