High Road Artist

Working Artist on the High Road to Taos

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Artist Materials From the Land

As most of you know I’ve begun a new series of paintings I’m calling The Micaceous Series. A reader of the blog, Grace Kane, calls them my earth paintings and she is so right. I am making them with earth and straw, the recipe for adobe. The longer I live here on this land, the […]

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Don’t Get Over It!

I have had this article, originally published in a small northwest magazine called Common Ground, and written by Melissa West, since sometime in the early 80’s. It spoke to me then and it still does now. Its subject is in keeping with our conversations over the last couple of weeks, so I wanted to share […]

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Fra Giovanni Giocondo

My friend, Grace Kane, who has been a supporter of this blog since its inception, sent this piece to me saying she thought it was lovely. I agree with her and I wanted to publish it on this Wisdom Wednesday so more of you can enjoy it. I also thought it was pertinent to the […]

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Rescued Puppy, Beau, Lands the Good Life

Two years ago my friend, Julie, told me about a litter of semi-wild puppies living under a trailer with their mom. The mom had a home, sort of. She lived outside, was starving most of the time, rarely had water and was not fond of strangers. However, she was fiercely loyal to her people. We […]

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Lorey Sebastian: Tales of the Film Industry, Part 2

Continued from yesterday’s post (Lorey Sebastian: Tales of the Film Industry, Part 1), which tells how Lorey started in the film business. Today—Lorey moves to Hollywood, in her own words: I grew up in New York and got into the business there. Then I moved to California—unfortunately, because of a relationship with a man, which […]

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Lorey Sebastian: Tales of the Film Industry, Part 1

My good friend, Lorey Sebastian, who lives here in Truchas, has been a still photographer in the film industry for several decades and has photographed just about every actor imaginable. She is an intensely private person in a very public business. However, she agreed to talk to me about how she started in film, why […]