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November 24, 2011 by Jeane George Weigel Leave a Comment

10 Things I Love About Being An Artist, #3

10 Things I Love About Being An Artist, #3 The Hero’s Journey. I must search, always. And I think that comes from my artist’s soul.

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November 18, 2011 by Jeane George Weigel 2 Comments

10 Things I Love About Being An Artist, #2

I never just paint. Something stirs in my soul. I experience a sort of collective sigh. My heart smiles in some ancient recognition that is surely shared. In these moments I am every artist who has ever watched a work of art being born.

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November 14, 2011 by Jeane George Weigel 15 Comments

10 Things I Love About Being An Artist, #1

The fire is crackling, the animals are snoozing and I am at the easel. That has to be my very favorite thing, standing up to my easel. It’s like I’m full—full of energy and light, purpose, a reason to be.

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October 24, 2011 by Jeane George Weigel 3 Comments

A Special Visitor Comes to Truchas, NM

A dear friend of mine died last April. He had a young friend in his life who was like a son to him, Chad, who came to visit us here in Truchas the other day.

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October 17, 2011 by Jeane George Weigel 6 Comments

Why Be an Artist?

I am sitting in a two-centuries old adobe home that is my art gallery—my gallery with Anna Karin. I love my life as an artist.

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October 3, 2011 by Jeane George Weigel 15 Comments

Want to Create? Just Begin

When I look back over the last fifteen years of living this artist’s life, to when I began painting again, it is the exact same thing. Simply put, I began.

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August 12, 2011 by Jeane George Weigel 18 Comments

Beginning to Paint After 26 Years

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On August 12, 1996, I picked up my brushes and began to paint again after 26 long years. I remember the day precisely. It was late afternoon in Seattle. A huge storm had blown in and it was pouring down rain. I put on loud music, old Bonnie Raitt, and started making soup. I used […]

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About High Road Artist IMG 9461 150x150I am Jeane George Weigel, a working artist living in the mountains of northern New Mexico, and I do not think you and I are so different.

Every single one of us longs to know what we ache for, to “follow our bliss” as Joseph Campbell famously put it. You may find yours as an artist, a writer, or a teacher. But I am convinced we all yearn to live what is in our hearts. Some of us spend a lifetime discovering what that is. Some never find it.

This blog is about a journey of self-discovery, yours and mine. I write about the experience of living an artist’s life and share musings and photos as this living experiment unfolds. It is my hope you’ll join in the conversation by writing to me about your lives and I dearly hope something, here, will inspire you.

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