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Collage Botanica Diary, 3: Quagmire
Great word! I’m loving the squishy flat-footed messy sound of that word, even though I find myself in a protracted mental and creative quagmire of late. Nothing for it but to take one squishy flat-footed messy step at a time, no matter how small and/or painstaking, so that’s what I’m doing. Continue reading
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Collage Botanica Diary, 2: Rinse and Repeat
I resist the impatience and impulsiveness which would have me moving straight into lesson two in the course I’m taking, and pause instead, as recommended by Amanda, to make a second iteration of lesson one … in which, truth to tell, I think I just redirect my impatience and impulsiveness rather than resist, slapping collage… Continue reading
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Collage Botanica Diary, 1
I recently purchased a new ecourse offered by Amanda Evanston called Collage Botanica. I’ve been feeling a bit untethered and at loose ends this summer, and Amanda’s class provides welcome exercises to point me in a direction with a bit of structure. So grateful! I paint up some collage fodder, take out my art journal,… Continue reading
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FamFest24 Souvenir
A happy little paintover piece for my front entry, started before my adult kids and their spouses and their kids arrived for 4th of July week, displayed in its work-in-progress stage during that week, now completed and in place probably until fall, encapsulating (a) the anticipation of FamFest; (b) the swimming, eating, playing games, boogie-boarding,… Continue reading
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A Little Something
A nourishing bit of playful creative whimsy—deceptively and engagingly challenging; entirely enjoyable. Continue reading
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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
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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