Paintings With Soul

  Tempest take a peek at her on my website Pictured above, Tempest, acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas, image painted around the sides so no pressing need to frame, $5000 plus s&h ($600 inside the contiguous US) to the first asking nicely. The link above will take you directly to my website where you can make her yours. Questions? Just   reach out . This is another one that began last August. I loved the start - beautiful line work and sworls of energy in a predominantly light filled space - but couldn’t really see or feel where she was going from there. So she sat at the back of my studio and waited patiently. And then, while on vacation, I was standing in all these ancient Italian basilicas looking up at the frescos and mosaics of saints ascending through skies and it hit me. This Bear is sacred, like every animal I paint she represents the holiness in our world. And Bears in particular to me represent Mothers, Protectors, Nurturers. Therefore she needed similar treatment...

  Starry Night view her on my website   Pictured above, Starry Night, acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas, image painted around the sides so no pressing need to frame, $5000 plus s&h ($600 inside the contiguous US) to the first asking nicely. The link above will take you directly to my website where you can make her yours. Questions? Just  reach out . This one began last August. Yes, you read that right. Nearly a year ago. Some paintings show up and are completed inside the blink of an eye. Others take a bit longer. I try not to stress about it - various things happen that can impact a pieces’ momentum. As long as I am continually showing up in the studio and doing my part to be receptive to my muse and artistic growth, it is what it is. And yup, the title is inspired by van Gogh. His struggle to create is no secret, and I thought a little nod to this lady’s journey was appropriate. I think she was worth the wait, though, don’t you? Get a close up look at Starry Night...

  Italy We just took our kids to Italy for an incredible two weeks of adventuring. We swam in Lake Como, slept under Murano glass chandeliers, got lost in the Tuscan foothills, dined on rooftops and terraces with the most incredible views, discovered a unicorn door in Venice, sampled wines in Florence, played cards all night long in a palazzo and drank from the Fountain of Everlasting Love at 1:30am on our 34th wedding anniversary.   So many incredible memories made - but the absolute best was the sheer overwhelm as to how my kids grew up into such fascinating, delightful, kind humans. Like, we made them and then somehow managed to keep them alive all these years, and now they are such unbelievably wonderful people building lives with equally unbelievable wonderful partners. I will never get enough of them. My biggest takeaway other than fan-girling over my family was physically being a part of the Italian art and culture. Witnessing in context millennium of human creation and...