Making these changes over the last 6 weeks has been nothing short of life-changing for me. Unplugging in this intentional way created space for me to form new habits that have forged new ideas in my painting practice and daily life: in short access to a new perspective...
It's been a thing for me since I was younger: I like to collect things. Rocks, seashells, sand from a significant place. They remind me of that moment, that feeling, the sounds, the smell. There's something powerful about a tangible object that ignites memories for me like fireworks...
This week, I continued my daily self portraits and tried an exercise that popped into my mind: drawing blindly. So instead of working while looking at the mirror, I closed my eyes and did big gesture drawings...
Painting large for me simply means freedom, freedom to drag that brush full of paint over my canvas dripping deliciously on the floor as I go. Why? because I can...
this week was full of wild, unbridled creativity! I continued both my daily self portraits this week as well as continued a collaborative approach to working with my children in my studio- and I noticed that this method of “work-ing” spring-boarded some incredible energy into my larger works..