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Perception
Today’s CutUp holds all the bits cut away yesterday from a piece of hand-painted dark green paper to yield three ‘positive’ dark green parabolas. When adhered to a brightly-colored background, a painting start from last year, those parabolas became the foreground of This Morning the World Is Made of Wind. Today, I adhered yesterday’s cut-away… Continue reading
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A February Fish Story
You’ve probably all heard or told a few fish stories, stories that are wildly exaggerated or untrue altogether. The fish story in my neck of the woods this week came from the meteorologists who predicted a major snowstorm across most of Massachusetts. We’re pretty hardy here in New England, not easily intimidated by the likes… Continue reading
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Have You Ever
Time for a camp song I’ve sung countless times over the years, full voice, standing up, with hand motions. Have you ever been a-fishin’On a bright and sunny daySeein’ all the little fishies Swimmin’ in and out the bayWith their hands in their pocketsAnd their pockets in their pantsSeein’ all the little fishiesDo the hootchie-cootchie… Continue reading
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Don’t Worry, Be Happy
This CutUp and its sister—sister posted yesterday—both make me feel gosh-darned cheerful. I just love the saturated primary colors, the simple sharp-edged shapes, the curved line of the stems, the textures, the differing patterns in the leaves and petals, and the asymmetries. They coalesce to ignite an instant inner and outer smile in me, and… Continue reading
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February Harvesting
On a recent road trip to Quilted Threads in Henniker, NH, friend Phyllis, a pictorial quilter, captivated my attention by sharing how she ‘paints’ with textiles by harvesting small pieces from lengths of fabric she selects to create the images that emerge in her quilts. In a process similar to Phyllis’s, I harvest mindfully-selected bits… Continue reading
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Lost & Found
Whew! Inspiration eventually knocked at my door, asking to help reclaim the shapes that got lost in the visually confusing rickety-house CutUp I started and then set aside last week. Veiling and glazing, a few new elements, and touches of ink outlines joined forces in a dance of subtraction and addition that prompted the previously… Continue reading
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A Tell-Tale Heart
My heart rate was definitely elevated yesterday when I took work-in-progress to the basement in my home where my bare-bones Singer sewing machine gathers dust between infrequent opportunities to be of service. The early stages of creating this new CutUp had moved along with playfulness, purpose, and delight. I had harvested several especially pleasing scraps… Continue reading
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An Indivisible Whole
negative space, positive spacefigure, groundstruggle, easechaos, orderdark, lightstillness, motion yin, yang Continue reading
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Energy Flow
The body is intelligent, and it will naturally guide its energy wherever it needs to go. We don’t have to do anything except get the energy flowing, and then allow it to move. Qigong provides a way to cultivate the flow of energy in the body. I write the words above and then watch as… 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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