People often tell me that they love my figurative paintings and wish I still painted them. Yesterday a friend remarked, "I think you'd have a gold mine painting cats and dogs." These remarks, though I'm used to them, require my utmost patience. I take their meaning to be: I don't like your geometric art, why are you wasting your time when figurative art is more likeable? Usually the context or the person doesn't permit an explanation, but it is this: I switched to geome

Greetings from Matinicus Island, Maine where I'm thinking about my art -- all the art I've created during the last 27 years -- as a whole, for the first time. in 27 years. When I began painting, I thought I would become a portrait painter. I got fairly good at it, but after painting my kids and my husband and my friends and my friend's kids and selling a number of portraits, I found the work not only unprofitable, but very tedious. In Mexico, where we owned a

I've been painting in my house in Morelia, Mexico for twenty-five years and have covered my walls. A friend of mine who moved to...

In May/June and September, I paint on Matinicus Island in Maine. It's 22 miles off the coast and gets a lot of rough weather. Last...

I'm 99.9% positive that I will never paint another pig. However, it took me all yesterday to realize that.

What do you think about text in a painting? I used it in this painted patchwork, because I liked how the orderliness of the tiny lines...

I met my husband's grandmother long after she was dead. I was cleaning out my in-law's attic, and way in the back was this quilt made by...

In July, I was given the opportunity to be the featured guest at the New Boston, NH Farmers Market. They gave me a tent and a table in...

In a March newsletter, I wrote about my "Corona" series which I painted at the beginning of the first Covid lockdown, March 2020. I...

The last eight days have been devoted to worrying about my friend who's in the hospital. She's one of those people who's always game for...

"Uvalde" mixed media on cradled wood panel, 20x20in. (51x51cm) The same year my father said he’d never pay to send me to art school — I...

Has anyone read The Midnight Library by Matt Haig? It's a novel about regret, something I often experienced while I painted during the...

Welcome to my Morelia studio. Here are three works in progress in my favorite sizes. The large painting is 48x48 inches (122x122cm) and...

Season's Greetings and welcome to my first Art Newsletter. (You can subscribe to the next one here.) I first learned to paint in 1998 on...

It’s probably not cool to admit this during a pandemic, but I’m excited to get up early every morning and start working on my series of

In northern New England, spring is only second to winning the lottery for the best thing that can happen to a person.

Why should I trouble with homework when drawing a zero was so much easier?