The River

 

Featured image: Flowing River

River, full

 Continuous motion

 Always active and changing

 Mysterious

Always intimate with beauty

Captivate

Featured image: Wisdom

Mystery, and secrets

    Found in

    Mr Crow your shiny

    Plumage

    Purple, black

    Green

Captivate 

    Your beauty

    Your mystery

On Top of the World

Featured image: Sweet Sweet Surrender- The Spirit of the Land, The Flow of the Water

I feel like I am on top of the world.

Curve

Small pine

Peeks of black spruce

On the horizon

Bobbing in the water

The energy from the

Lake

Emerging, emerging

I wish it was 

Perpetual

It makes you feel so

Alive

So very

alive

The Energy

 

Featured image: Fishing at the Top of the World

Fishing pole in hand Feeling the bottom of the lake Deep, deep down Feeling connected to all That is as I look towards The horizon So far, so far away Touching the sky Feeling connected to all To all that is

The energy That rises from the Pole To the horizon – To all that is  Just... So powerful

Backyard Birds Receives Award

 

Featured image: Backyard Birds

I am truly honored that my painting Backyard Birds received the Bronze Medal Award at the 32nd Annual Red River Watercolor Society National Juried Watermedia Exhibition.

This national exhibition, juried by the talented Kim Johnson Nechtman and held at the Diederich Art Gallery at Minnesota State University Moorhead, celebrates the power and beauty of watermedia in all its forms.

I’m deeply grateful for this recognition and for the chance to share my work alongside so many inspiring artists. Thank you to the Red River Watercolor Society, the juror, and to everyone who continues to support and celebrate the arts. Moments like this remind me of the joy of creating and the connections art makes possible.

Seeing

 

Featured image: Valleys Kissed by the Sun

Sunlight

Seeing

Sunlight makes the leaves transparent

The Garden

 

Featured image: I Come to the Garden Alone

When I lived in England, my home was a row house in the middle of a bunch of other row houses, with the saddest little plot of grass—at most 10x10—in the front and a brick-paved space in the back, allowing for a tiny backyard or front yard to play in.

But I was fortunate. There was a huge English garden right across the street from our house, so when I was home from an English girls' boarding school, I could wander the very cultivated paths. There were places to play cricket, tennis, soccer, or simply sit and read.

My favorite spot was two sitting benches, and in between them stood a large stone monument with a poem written in 1913 by Dorothy Frances Gurney, called God's Garden. I have always loved this poem. I used to sit on those benches and find peace there. I even have a plaque with this poem written on it in my own garden.

“The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is closer to God’s Heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.”