Creatively Thinking

  Featured image: Winter Chickadee This scrap of valor just for play Fronts the north wind in waistcoat gray –Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Featured image: Black Feather “ The soul has moments of escape. ” — Emily Dickinson

  Featured image: Marsh Grass and Blue Sky “I would like to put reason in the grass and tears in the sky.” — Paul Cézanne

  Featured image: Rainbow Bird “Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.” — Claude Monet

  Featured image:  Wind Breathes “I like a canvas to breathe and be alive.” — Lee Krasner

  I’m delighted to share that my artwork Charting Pathways has been accepted into Portals , an online juried exhibition presented by Collage Artists of America. Created with vintage and assorted papers and water-based media, Charting Pathways reflects my continuing exploration of the real, the imagined, and freedom. I find that working with collage allows unexpected connections to emerge, where fragments of different stories come together to suggest something entirely new. It is a wonderful feeling to have this work selected for an exhibition that celebrates imagination and the possibilities of what lies beyond the familiar. The exhibition will be on view online November 1 through December 31, 2026 , at collageartists.org .

I’m honored and grateful to share that three of my works—Blue Bird III, Red Dress, and She Is A Creative—have been accepted into the 2026 Reflection Art Show at the Paul Nigra Center for Creative Arts in Gloversville, New York. My work continues to explore the real, the imagined, and freedom. Each of these pieces tells a different story, inviting us to look beyond what we see and consider the emotions, possibilities, and meanings that lie beneath the surface. I’m especially grateful to have three works included in an exhibition centered around reflection—a theme that connects so naturally with my own artistic journey. My sincere thanks to the Paul Nigra Center for Creative Arts and everyone involved in bringing this exhibition together. It is always meaningful to have opportunities to share my work and the ideas that have shaped it. The exhibition will be on view October 30, 2026, through January 7, 2027, with an opening reception on Thursday, November 5, from 4–7 PM.

  Featured image: It's a Beautiful Morning “What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.” – Harold Rosenberg

  Featured image: Little Bird Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye… it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.” — Edvard Munch

Featured image: She is a Creative   “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.” – Groucho Marx

  Featured image: Rainbow Bird “The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.” – William Faulkner

 Featured image: Spring Dance “I've always believed that a dance evening energizes an audience, that an audience goes out feeling chemically stronger and more optimistic. This is what I understand about dance. And this is an important thing. We need this. Our culture needs it.” – Twyla Tharp

  Featured image: Traveling II “I believe that the justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenalin but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.” – Glenn Gould

  Featured image: Pot of Flowers “Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.” – Jim Henson

  Featured image: What If A Bird Doesn't Sing “There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear.”— John Cage

  Featured image: Canna Lily “The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.” — Wassily Kandinsky

 Featured image: Celebrate Innovation “Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.” — Arshile Gorky

  Featured image: Nature's Truth Rich earth, remarkable trees… woods, sky, nature. They offer a healing that is a natural process, something that goes beyond anything reasonable. And yet, it gives you a remarkable, comfortable, real sense of satisfaction and strength—a gift that helps fill you from within, if you allow it to. And the wonderful, glorious thing about nature is that it is always there. It can always be there, no matter what color it is, no matter what state it is in. It can always give you strength. It can always fill those empty spaces in your heart, if you allow it to. The sounds nature makes, or the sounds it does not make, become part of the alchemy—that magical transformation between you and nature. It is always mysterious and transformative, changing the ordinary into something very wonderful for you. Really, you make this transformation yourself, if you are simply silent and listen to all those sounds around you. Far away, the green leaves twist with the wind. ...

  “There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who… transform a yellow spot into a sun.” — Pablo Picasso Featured image: Checking Things Out

  Featured image: Tree, Tree, Tree Trees Early morning, it is a nice time to speak to the trees and connect to them and they to me as we together connect to the sky and the earth and start our day. Listening to the wind twisting the leaves in the aspen trees. I can’t imagine not being able to hear this sound in the mornings. I can’t imagine not being able to see the leaves twist with the wind, and hearing this sound and this movement. They are such a blessing. They are so beautiful to me. You are so beautiful To me You are so beautiful To me Can't you see You're everything I hoped for You're everything I need You are so beautiful To me — “You Are So Beautiful,” written by Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher Earth. Trees.