The Reason behind all the Celebrating…

Export to PDF | Export to DOCIt occurred to me last month, in the midst of my own personal Birthday Celebration, that an attitude adjustment regarding CHRISTMAS could do me some good this year. If you’ve been living in the United States since before Halloween — you don’t need ME to tell you that the […]

Noticing 1.534246575342466 Things to Celebrate (each day!)

Export to PDF | Export to DOCThere are usually a limitless number things to celebrate. Even for my dog Lucy (shown the photo above) caught in the moment celebrating a whole lot of happy things to smell on a beautiful July morning.   Have you ever seen this book? As the title implies, the book is simply […]

When all else fails…

Export to PDF | Export to DOCWhen all else fails… Do what you know how to do. I know how to paint. I wasn’t BORN knowing how to paint. It is a skill I have spent the past 15+ years developing. Sometimes with great purpose. But more often than not in the midst of shooing […]

A painting without words.

Export to PDF | Export to DOCSometimes a piece of art just needs to speak for itself. This one has limitless stories. The stories of every single person with even the slightest connection to The College of Charleston. So that is all I will say about this particular piece of art. At least for now. […]

A calendar for you! Art for July 2017.

Export to PDF | Export to DOC Why do I give my art as GIFTS? Because I think that everybody could use a few more Pictures of Hope in their lives! This month’s giveaway is a July Calendar for your desktop that includes my most recent painting called “Endurance.” Here is is drying on the […]

For once I listened…

Export to PDF | Export to DOCTo my own advice. Here is what I told everybody. For an entire month. The month of March, 2017. “You cannot do it all. Choose wisely. Because balance is a myth.” Which is WHY… My June 2017 computer desktop calendar is SIX. DAYS. LATE. This same monthly calendar, which […]

What would this Primrose Painting say if it could talk? “Call me ‘Nurture.’”

Sometimes it takes longer to process the meaning that a
painting holds than it took to paint.

Some things never go out of style.

Export to PDF | Export to DOCA common denominator between gardening, mercy, and love What is Timeless? I asked a group of friends to look at my newest painting so they could help me come up with a title for it. I wanted the name to convey a character trait they admire. And with Mothers’ […]

Remembering Moses and the Red Sea

Export to PDF | Export to DOC Do you remember Moses? He was that guy with white long hair from the Bible who was met in the desert by a bush. Not just an ordinary bush. This bush was a talking, on-fire-yet-not-being-consumed-by-flames kinda bush. Probably the only bush of its kind to ever exist. Moses wasn’t […]

What are YOU expecting? Thoughts for the start of a New Year…

Export to PDF | Export to DOC“Expecting” is one of many paintings I created during the summer of 2016. But this one was special. I painted it with a friend in mind. A friend who was expecting. Expecting. Hoping. Dreaming. But with a heart that was understandably guarded. A heart that had been on this same […]