Be tenacious! Have courage! When everything that you recognize is stripped away know that as a creative being you can still blossom. Pink. The Lady Slipper Orchid emerging after surviving the timbering, April 2022 It was the holiday season of 2009. We simply took a drive. Heading west four hours from Wren House we enter […]
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Growing Together
My thanks to Norfolk Academy, artist Rick Nickle and artist-curator Betsy DiJulio (who made it all happen 😉 for the exhibition ‘Growing Together’. In lieu of a public opening, canceled due to Covid, I have created a brief walk-through. Click on the image to take the 18-minute gallery tour: Please leave a comment, choose a […]
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Dancing in the Dark…
Welcome to the art/life trail. November offers time to reflect. These four weeks provide a natural time to reconnect to what holds deep meaning for you. Consider your dreams, ideas, visions, inclinations to express yourself. Reflect upon the creative juice within your relationships. Also note the opportunities facing you through your current challenges. Hail, […]
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Noble in Nature
“Every human life has their seeds, their birth, their family history and cultures, and their own experiences. In your studio, it should be yourself that you are seeking. We are all thickly layered and fragile. Heredity, culture, and experiences all combine to make each one of us unique and different from each other.” Donna Watson […]
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The Root of the Matter
Welcome to the art/life trail ride. Who Knows? Maybe the Root Is the Flower Of that Other Life Mary Oliver We are moving down into the roots of the 90 days of fall. This is the Experience month, when it’s possible to really begin (fresh each year) to mature the creative energies of the art/life. I invite […]
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Trust to Love
I’ve missed you. It has been four weeks… to the day… since I last met up with you here on the art/life trail ride. I hope that you are well. I Trust that you are savoring this delicious point on the Natural Calendar. This mid-point in September is where we begin to harvest what has […]
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Moonlight Falls…
Welcome to the art/life trail ride! The August Moon connects us to the keyword Trust. Our 30 day challenge for the moon/month includes Trusting that it’s safe to be safe. That’s a creative concept in and of itself! Once safe it is also safe to let your freak flag fly! Coloring outside the lines is just […]
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On the Beautiful Trail
Welcome to this week on the art/life trail ride…in our third week of the 30 day emotional heath and well being challenge let’s be bold as we celebrate curiosity and possibility. Last fall while writing the 2016 Lifecycle Forecast I realized that the word Koyaanisqatsi, which roughly translates to: life out of balance or chaotic life, would be […]
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Kindled, Grounded and Spacious
Goddess in the Making, Drozda, Acrylic/canvas, 36 by 36 inches, 1996, available for purchase We are all such exquisite and ruthless combinations of wisdom and woundedness. Jan Crawford Welcome to the art/life trail ride! It’s the last week in our 30 day Wisdom challenge…what does it mean to be wise? As you’ve moved through the […]
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Resist and Persist
This week we travel deep into the ‘Wisdom’ Moon cycle (May 6 – June 5, 2016). Change is afoot “A blueprint for our lives is as necessary as a blueprint for a house. It doesn’t serve us well to keep trying to build an igloo in the congo. Joanne Silver, artist Welcome to this week […]
