Creatively Thinking

  Featured image:   Gram's Vase Imagining is a major part of who I am and how I think. I used to be pretty clear on what was real and what I made up, but with everything going on in the world, none of that seems to matter. So there are things I do because they are right and they make sense to me, be that they are imagined or real. It seems right to me that experience is the real reason I create art. I figured out a long time ago that what I think and what I wanted to create were two different things. Both are very powerful. I just don’t let them fight anymore. I don’t fight the paint and the mark making anymore when things don’t turn out the way that I expected. I just imagine them differently. Abstract work allows not only the artist but also the viewer to engage in the work and to imagine, to create. Each day I just go to my studio, turn on the lights and immerse myself and my life to the beautiful mystery of creating and imagining. When I finish a day in my studio I say to ...

  Featured image:   Amarylis 2023 Art and artists like fine wine only get better as they age.

  Featured image:   White Feather Each morning my life becomes transformed and I awake to mother nature once again becoming new. If anyone wonders what new and authentic, and one-of-a-kind is, watch the day begin. Watch the sun rise. I watched this morning as a tiny white feather floated from nowhere down to the earth. It was so small, once a part of flight and living, now to become once again part of the miracle of earth, nature and creation. Natural things like this one are hard to recreate for an artist. For me, it is the idea of receiving a gift such as a floating feather and sharing it with others, one way or another.

   Featured image:   Nature's Truth Freedom in the Middle Space is like meadows filled with wildflowers. Meadows filled with an overflow of different kinds of flowers intermixing is nature’s way of being very creative.  As I pass the wildflower meadows where I take my walks, I see bright magnificent colors of intermingled deep blue greens, yellow greens and whites.   I trust nature, like I trust those in the middle who honor and respect choice and the individual.  I trust nature, the natural space of the earth, water and trees, bugs, birds and critters.  I trust nature with its wind, rain and snow. I trust the natural space of sunrises and sunsets along with the natural space of a field of wildflowers.  For me, nature, the natural, is all about creation, It is something that is part of me and I am a part of it.  For me, it is part of the large and the small, the positive and the negative, life and death. I looked up the word nature....

  Featured image:   Springtime Thaw water melting snow steams along the walking path currents of energy flow ripples as a child, I created.  twig boats  floating  with the current downstream boats journey my journey

  Featured image:   Fields Along The Edge Of The River like a river flowing like open air freely blowing   wind unravels…… you

  Featured image:  The Pie Soul is like a pie Filled with fruitful Delight Cocooned in  Flakey crust.