This is my favorite-and most challenging parts of the creative process: the final stages. The work starts to come together, but my energy flow can weaken as the process drags on. And I become so familiar with the image, (too familiar?) that I can become complacent,...
Day seven: Started working at 5:00 AM. Finally stopped at 5:00 PM. I can’t paint another rock, make up another shade of blue, worry that the waves that are crashing in front might need more waves crashing in back. I’m exhausted! I am loving the stack of...
Day One: Ah yes, the artist’s worst dilemma and greatest challenge-the blank sheet, the raw background, the gessoed canvas. Blank, white, virgin background waiting to be turned and twisted, cared for, screamed at, manipulated and manipulating. Wanting to be...
Birch Trees, Installed, December 2014. Anna Philbrook Center, Concord, NH. Learning About The Good Work of Hospice Twenty years ago I met Diane Stringer, CEO of Hospice of the North Shore (now called Care Dimensions), when she became a patron of my artwork. She...
Last summer I had the opportunity to travel to “outer” Cape Cod. As any New Englander will tell you, the outer Cape is the REAL Cape: less crowded, more nostalgic, unspoiled. One feels the history of the place in the spongy turf under our feet, the smell...
I am often asked, “how do you do your art. I mean, how do you even know where to begin?” Artists develop their skills just like other professionals: we take a grain of creative ability, something we all have a little of, work at it for long periods of...
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