I started the workshop on the wrong foot. With a 24 hour stomach bug, I missed the first day of fun. The second day, I felt strong enough to paint some flowers.

When I paint a horse, it isn’t just a horse. The horse represents a feeling. Horses are very expressive animals, they express joy, anger, fear, frivolity, power. A challenge for me as an artist is to show that feeling in the horse’s posture. I have been drawing horses since I was a small child. I’m…

I haven’t been blogging much lately, but be assured, I am painting and sketching. I have been working on horses, trotting, walking, galloping, jumping. Since I live in a big city, far, far away from horses, I have been relying on a book full of horse photographs taken in the 1800’s in a government funded…

Phil Williams, recently deceased, was, with his wife and partner, Vivian, one of the most important people in the folk music community in the northwest. I first learned about them in the early 1980s, because my young husband at the time had seen them at Weiser. I enjoyed going to jams at their house, and…

Ernesto is a little cat that was born in Aleppo, Syria. He was one of the very few cats that was able to survive and evacuated the town in those very last moments last winter. I think Ernesto, who is usually contented just to have a good meal, also dreams of a world where there…