I share with you here a return to color through my new abstract watercolor painting with literary content. Color is my first language and is also a deep love of mine, even a visceral instinct. That is why I yearned to return to some color work as I further relaxed from my Zen black and […]

My paintings are more of the “transformational” nature rather than the “transactional” or commercial nature. I love that phrase, given me by my confidant, Charlotte. I’m ready to grow into that now as a point of view, and those of you who subscribe to my blog, I believe will understand and embrace this. I hope […]

My art continues to evolve in this time of troubling government resolutions. When I first heard the news on the immigration situation at the border, I was deeply shocked. Even now this is hard for me to write, as the emotions continue to reverberate through my system. That separation of children from their mothers, from […]

New abstract oil paintings—I am still tentatively venturing into this old and new world of color in these, a return to my roots. My roots in abstract oil painting began in my first art classes, as we were already in front of the living Rothkos exhibited in Lincoln, Nebraska at that time. I sat in […]

With my new abstract painting, I have burst through a door in my being waiting to be opened perhaps.   “Red Darling” 1810 “Imagine the time the particle you are Returns where it came from. The family darling comes home. Wine, without being contained in cups, is handed around. A red glint appears in a granite […]