A workshop and a painting with poet Bashō are featured here “I’m Lonely Too” Will you turn toward me? I am lonely too, this autumn evening.   – Basho 1905S This simple plea is poignant with the simplicity and directness. This is not attachment; this is not detachment. Instead, this is a true experience in a […]

Abstract sumi e painting based on Rumi poem below… “This Day is Conscious of itself. This day is a lover, bread and gentleness.”   -Rumi tr. CB 1907S Isn’t this an amazing thought – even the very day is conscious of itself! Everything is sacred in the Oneness of the All. We must bow down and […]

Happy Hanukkah – 2 Abstract Sumi e paintings where I celebrate the Jewish Holiday underway… I painted two sumi e to celebrate Hanukkah, the Jewish holiday that lasts for eight nights, usually in November or December. This year, 2021, it began at sundown on Sunday, Nov. 28, and ends Monday, Dec. 6. I love stories […]

My latest Sumi e Painting, “My Blossoming Heart”, is a favorite because I feel it in my heart and soul. “True, I may appear unkempt like a rotting tree, jetsam and flotsam, but on the right occasion this old heart can still blossom.” The Monk Kengú 1874S Sumi e – “The Space Between Us” The […]

The Guide from Beyond – abstract sumi e. Your guide may not be telling you what you want to hear. But it might be what helps your soul to grow the most. “Be Grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. * Rumi (CB) “The Guest House” 1839S Imagine […]

A love song and the divine in abstract sumi e. I almost didn’t show this painting today, as the subject matter might not seem to match the heaviness of the times, with covid, the political situation, the climate crises happening all over the world and all over America, from what my friends tell me, East […]

My sumi e abstract work is being enjoyed by people like you coming to my workshops. As I watch them work, I have a sense of their own freedom in expression and release of the Chi. I see them enjoy the flow, being in the moment, creating something never seen before, then later reflecting on […]

What a happy experience we had Finding our Hearts and Souls in the Sumi Brushwork Workshop at Foothills Art Center on a beautiful October day in Colorado! Students meditate, observe, go deeply into paintings both they themselves as well as myself have made, finding the meaning that is within their own hearts. Because of our […]

To “Find Your Heart and Soul in Sumi e Brushwork”, we gathered at Walker Fine Art, Denver CO in May. As a sumi artist, I led my workshop here. This is a great setting for a new experience in meditative painting! Here’s what I have to say right now about this process: “When I teach […]