artist at play
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Still Poking Around
In early June I painted a 14 x 17″ chaos-layer start and cut it into quadrants with the intention of developing each piece with neurographic linework while on vacation. The vacation got waylaid by smoke from Canadian wildfires. The painting starts got waylaid when I felt stumped each time I picked one up hoping to… Continue reading
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Instead Of
For a chunk of time a number of years ago—and even now upon occasion—I used an instead-of phrase in the subject line of an email message to indicate what it was I was forgoing (by which I often meant avoiding) in order to write the message. For example, you might have received an email from… Continue reading
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Kickin’ Back a Bit
Without a conscious decision, I surprise myself by taking the final start for my current series to my paper trimmer and cutting it in half. Oh! I decide not to ‘work’ the first half as much as earlier pieces but rather to give the background a chance to reveal itself as landscape on its own—or… Continue reading
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Unearthing Art
Hahaha—as I went to type the title to this post, I spied the following: unearthing! Wordplay aside, I took myself on another art-excavation adventure here, kicking leaves and stones out of my way, scraping with sticks, shoveling up dirt and flinging it willy-nilly, damming and rerouting streams and rivulets, trampling undergrowth, and snapping low branches,… Continue reading
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Hiding in Plain Sight
I detected no landscape at all in this quadrant of chaos until I let dripping-paint trees meander from the top edge of the page downward. Continue reading
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Feeling the Buzz
I can feel creative energy zinging throughout my body of late and, somehow, my sense is that I can feel the movement of that buzz because I am inwardly still enough to do so. In any case, I’m running with it, so to speak! My most recent adventure is fueled by a free mini online… Continue reading
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November Adventures 4, 5, 6
Lines memorized in 1967 that, in combination with other inspiration that found its way to me, contributed to my moving out of being stuck and back into creative flow with this series of November art adventures: What might have been is an abstractionRemaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. T.S. Eliot, Four… Continue reading
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November Adventures 1, 2, 3
Recent musings from artist Louise Fletcher: I decided that artists can be put into two categories—and that’s daft to begin with, we know! … but we could think about people as completers or adventurers in the way that they approach their art. … For the completer, the finished product is the objective of being a… Continue reading
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Getting in (and Out of) My Own Way 3
After getting and staying in my own way and being my own obstacle, at long last I stopped fighting what was in front of me. A door to alchemy opened. A seemingly magical process of transformation and creation unfolded. Without my dukes up, perceived difficulty metamorphosed into inspiration instead, became a gift for me to… Continue reading
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Getting in My Own Way 2
Eventually I took a tiny baby step away from being frozen in place by adding color to my lines-only black-and-white-only start. All the while, though, deep down I knew (a) I was still holding tight to loving those lines, staying painstakingly and deliberately within them and (b) the only thing I was ‘letting go’ of… 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 creative practice.
I post my paintings and their stories. The good, the bad, the ugly.
In 2025 I begin writing poetry and include a poem and painting in each post.
My compass points: shake hands with fear, be playful, get messy, trust my gut.
