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 […]

Endurance. What is YOUR story?

Export to PDF | Export to DOCMy most recent “Endurance Story” happened in Charleston, SC. In the middle of a sun-baked park. Surrounded by several years of my artwork. Protected only by a 10″ x 10″ tent. For an endless string of 17 straight days.  By the end of DAY ONE — all I could […]

Shadows with a plan. (February calendar!)

Export to PDF | Export to DOCConeflower is part of my “Sad Flower” series — a series of four botanical paintings, representing four heavy-hearted flowers I found growing in various locations. In the twelve-plus-years I’ve been painting, I have never created a “sad series.” I guess I’d never felt such a heaviness of heart before as when I […]

Sometimes I forget how sick I was… (August desktop Calendar)

Export to PDF | Export to DOCIf you forget how sick you were, you probably aren’t sick anymore. On this peaceful morning, however, I was reminded how sick I really was back in 2009. Today I simply wanted to find  one of my barn paintings that I hadn’t used as a desktop calendar yet, so […]