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.
A Meaningful Life
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Beginning to Paint After 26 Years
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 […]