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‘Attention Is the Beginning of DevotioN’ Mary Oliver
‘Re-Wilding: Embodying the Natural World through Drawing & Meditation, was advertised as a way to witness “the beauty of the natural world” as a “gateway to authentic inspiration.” Re-Wilding was offered by the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, a community art center that has hosted a range of workshops since 1971.’
Ciao tutti!
Join us in Italy this autumn!
Landscape Painting & Sketching Colorful Topographies
September 28th-October 5th
Creative Practice Residency
October 7th-14th
colorado residency
Artist in Residence- Fountain Valley School
One of the most remarked-upon facets of Fountain Valley School is the unique “sense of place” inherent to Fountain Valley’s presence as an boarding school located on a sprawling prairie, bordered on the west by the imposing silhouette of Pikes Peak and the Rocky Mountains.
castle hill show
Summer show at the Castle Hill Center for Arts in Truro, MA. Please join me Thursday July 20th from 4-6pm for the opening gallery reception on the Outer Cape. Show runs from July 17th-28th.
Systems of Presence
For the month of April, I was invited to be the Artist in Residence at The Fountain Valley School outside of Colorado Springs, CO on the prairie at the foot of 14,000’ mountains. It has been an incredible gift of time to deepen my creative practice and an opportunity to try to understand and interpret a place I’ve never seen before.
AWE.
February is a tough month in New England. In this heart of winter, when everything feels so grey and colorless, as a painter and lover of color, sometimes it’s easy to lose inspiration. I’ve always dreamed of escaping and traveling to some warmer place…where I could get an infusion of greens, blues and maybe even pink. The allure of the exotic…the soft breeze blowing through the palm trees. Alas, I remain in New England and on the cusp of March, I am yearning for spring.
tethered
When our sweet pup, Captain, died suddenly during the pandemic, I found myself starting to sew together her toys. There was something about the act of sewing and creating new creatures from old that felt connective to me...like she and I were still playing. I began to draw from multiple views of these sewn sculptures, honoring the lossof her by working with the beautiful remnants of what she left behind.
PRimordial Goo
My practice has been increasingly devoted to process. Creative rituals have kept me buoyant in these uncertain times and have evolved my work. To launch a new website now, is an opportunity to share highlights of this process, much generated as daily practice. Setting an intention to create one piece a day for a predetermined period of time with creative constraints. Durational creative rituals have been touchstones where I let myself explore whatever I was curious about, unhinged by expectation or old rules. Living into the questions and seeing that themes of love, loss, memory, sound, movement and letting go organically emerged. This period of incubation has been a recalibration, offering clues for a path forward.