Captivating Moments
Have you ever looked at the sky just before it starts to get dusk and see a beautiful full moon. There is something captivating about the “day moon” that I find fascinating. As an artist, moments that capture my attention merit being recreated in my art. A while...
Asking the Pertinent Questions
I am welcoming this year as a new beginning, with a renewed sense of awareness of where my artistic journey is leading me. Last year, I learned the value of asking questions. Questions help me awaken new paths that await, and don’t allow me to stagnate. Questions...
Internal Exploration
Exploration has been a core theme in my art, especially when it comes to exploring the outside world and all it has to offer in inspiring my next creation. Since I have been in school, exploration is taking me to look on creating art through the lens of technique,...
Experiences and Pondering
When I was asked for the first time to create a crazy quilt from my own imagination, the first thing I did was ponder about it. I love the word ponder. I came across this word in my late twenties while reading and it captured my attention. To ponder means to...
A Whole New Light
It is always a bit frightening to share a part of who you are as an artist especially when you feel like you are not being the best creative version of yourself self that you can be. I was feeling stuck in a creative slump when I wrote the last newsletter. As most of...
Pondering a Creative Slump
If you were to ask me how my artistic process is going, I would tell you that I’m currently stuck in what I would describe as a creative slump. I have not been inspired to create anything that really makes my heart sing. I have been spending a lot of time pondering...
Obstacles – Steps to Overcoming
Have you ever looked at an abundant flower garden and wondered what obstacles were overcome for it to grow and become the luxurious garden that it is? Sometimes, I find that my focus is on the beauty and I seldom think about the hurdles that might have occurred...
Fall’s Ending Beauty
There is something so beautiful about this time of year, as I look out onto the landscape of bare trees with their shapely trunks and crooked limbs, they bring a calm to my hectic days causing me to pause and truly breathe. For me fall comes alive with my...
The Magic of Flowers
Do flowers captivate you? Do they call you to come close and admire them? Do they inspire you to create gardens in your homes just for the joy of it? Or do they inspire you to go and visit places that cultivate their uniqueness, and teach about their importance? I...
Little Koi Pond
A Koi Pond story Inspiration is just outside your door. When we moved into our new home, we were excited that the side yard had a small pond at the side of the house. It needed a bit of fixing up and my husband was up to the task. Once it was done and filled with...
“Connections” A Gift Bestowed
“Blue Bird in the Garden” is a wonderful depiction of connection. I create with what I connect with “nature” and this connection encourages my creativity! "Connections” the gift that art bestowed on me. When I first began to create art, it felt like” I came into...
Celebration 15 Year
When I go out into nature, I am always fascinated by what I see. This spring has been full of wonderous flowering plants some familiar to me and some new ones that have introduce themselves, as I walked various gardens in my explorations. Even in my own garden the...
Nature’s Influence
“Springtime Blooms” In creating art, I find that outside influences inspire me to try to create art that expresses how I feel from within. Nature continually captivates me. I finding it a joy to recreate it over and over again, and each time, I hope I am able to...
Interwoven Coral Reefs Exhibition
Interwoven Coral Reefs is a representation of coral reefs found in the oceans throughout the world. Here in the Midwest, we do not live near a reef, and most of us do not give them the attention that they deserve. I chose to create ocean reefs in my art to draw...
Unlike Anything Else
At the beginning of the year, I began to ponder the word "Unique." I first became aware of the word in my 8th grade homeroom class, held in the music room, of my junior high school. I don’t quite remember what made the music teacher say to me I was unique, but...