red paint studio in New Mexico
Your Little Island of Self
Banana Bread and lists

loosening up your painting ...and why teach

You can still see the milky way in the night sky
The stars are still there..you just have to find a quite place to see them. They waited while we set up tents, made a fire ,started the camp stove and then above us appeared the milky way and all her friends. Its good to be reminded that we live amidst beauty ..the kind that nature has gifted us and will exist with or without us. The Utah ( Moab) landscape is also an artists dream of rocky forms and surreal shapes..my mind wondering off to clay forms and red dirt from years ago. All week Hot Air Balloons glide above...
when people disappear from your life.

I thought watching someone I loved slowly die would be the hardest thing I'd ever have to do. Watching a child suffer while we wait for science and research to uncover clues to a 20 yr chronic illness beats death ..hands down. Death is easy..living is hard. This of course brings me back to why I smile and nod when visitors engage themselves with my artwork..and then tell me "you must be having so much fun.."yeah..loads I want to say ..look closer I want to mention..but instead I know that I cannot divulge all that is not apparent. A female...