A Look Back

A collector shared a photo of their space (which made my day!) they encouraged to share a space that matters to me...and I love that idea, so here is mine...part studio, part time machine, part dog nap zone.

I either paint inn complete silence (while listening to my dog snore) or I pop in a dvd that I've been carrying around for years that somehow survived decades unscratched. It's a time warp when they play and keeps me company.

I paint or draw most days. I put my supplies away at night so when morning comes, it feels like a fresh start...nothing waiting or the feeling I have to fix something. I clear it all away every night so it always feels like a blank canvas the next day.

Here's to blank canvases, old dvds, and fresh starts.

(Music Choice for Creation: Morphine; Candy)

Original Artwork, 36" x 12", Acrylic on Canvas, 2025, "Family Portrait" Part of the "Portraits From Another Room" collection

"Family Portrait"

Part of the Portraits From Another Room" Collection

Each chose their favorite animal and I surprised them with a sketch, it was fun watching them circle back to see if they could see themselves in it.

(Music Choice for Creation: Bjork; Human Behavior)

Homegrown is in full swing at SOLCA

May 2, 2025

Dropping off my painting "Holding Love Close" at Zeitgeist for the Gender Joy Art Show. Thank you to YWCA Duluth for organizing. 

My piece celebrates compassion and care, challenging the idea that softness is weakness, and honoring the courage it takes to love openly. 

To me, this show is about the joy and strength of being your truest self. It's a space where tenderness is strength, and being vulnerable is being brave.

May 1, 2025

The hens have an art show date! Looking forward to having "Chicken Stories" at Spirit of the Lake Arts for the Pop-up Chicken Art Show during the Homegrown Music Festival this week in Duluth, May 2-3, 2025.

Enjoying "April Showers, May Flowers!" Exhibition at the Nordic Center Duluth where blooms are everywhere, and my hens are right at home.

This show reminds us of the beauty and wildflowers that grow when we let nature lead the way. 

Painting chickens is close to my heart. Their intelligence often goes unnoticed, but they are emotionally sensitive creatures with powerful memories and deep bonds.

A special thank you to Art Reach St. Croix for the moving exhibition. 

I was honored to have "Weight of the World" in the show, a piece where a yellow pear delicately balances a red apple on its stem. A meditation on strength and fragility, weighted with the tension between balance and collapse. It reflects the quiet, daily act of holding it all together. 

It was truly moving to witness the work of so many incredible artists.

April Fools got me this year, and it was a good one.

April 1, 2025

The hens are headed to town! "A Life Meant to Wander," "Reaching for the Sun," and "Among Giants" will be part of the upcoming "April Showers, May Flowers!" Exhibition at the Nordic Center Duluth. 

Each piece honors chickens as sensitive, intelligent beings with stories worth telling, a celebration of dignity, curiousity, and freedom that blossoms when we allow all creatures to live as they were meant to: gently, among wildflowers.

March 31, 2025

I am excited to be exhibiting my piece, "Weight of the World" as part of the "Mental Health, Finding Creative Solace" Art Reach St. Croix Exhibition at 2 locations Art Reach St. Croix and Washington County Historic Courthouse. "Weight of the World is part of my "Nature of Us" collection, a series that reflects healing and shared human experience.

March 20, 2025