Art is Grounded
Featured image: Sky Land Water “ Art is grounded in the evolving, changing, formal, visual language that tries to define it. ” ~ Christine Alfery
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The Middle Knows
Featured image: Crossroads “We dance around in a ring and suppose But the secret sits in the middle and knows.” Robert Frost
Bridge
Featured image: The Bridge bridge a dotted line porous difficult to cross finding, locating …..spirit ….soul ….self
Talisman III Receives Award
Featured image: Talisman III I am truly humbled and grateful to have received first place in the prestigious Northwest Watercolor Society (NWWS) 83rd International Open Exhibition. It is an incredible honor to be recognized among such a talented group of watercolor artists. The judge, Stan Kurth, carefully selected my artwork 'Talisman III' from over 300 entries to be showcased in this exclusive exhibition. To then be chosen as the recipient of the first place award is simply overwhelming. I am filled with joy and gratitude for this incredible recognition. Thank you, thank you so much.
I began experimenting. At the same time, I started seeing history not as a progressive linear line moving forward towards something better, but as carrying things forward from the past, mixing the past to the present. History became layered for me, I saw the concept of layering, not in my creative paintings in a different way, a different perspective. At the same time began a series of the earth and its layering, I was working on pieces for a solo exhibition in January 2024. If I bring layers of history forward, repeat the stories that are hidden in those layers, retell them, and create something from them, looking at them in a present light, history could then be seen as layering and not progressive. For example, I experimented with the concept of a layered history in a work I called “Turquoise Jacket,” The jacket is a story of a young person inheriting their grandmother's turquoise jacket. The jacket smelled like the grandmother, and the jacket brought up memories ...