It has been quite some time since I last wrote on this blog, and much has changed over the past two years. Life required me to pause—but not to stop creating. During this period, I continued making art and found myself naturally pivoting from oils to pastels, a shift shaped by both circumstance and discovery. I navigated an intense season of personal challenges: a brief period of unemployment, my mother transitioning into long-term care, the loss of my brother, and an ongoing divorce. With...

Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) One of the modern painters I admire the most is Thomas Hart Benton is considered a master painter in the...

A lesson from the past to move forward --- While cleaning out my mother's house, I came across a delightful bottle of wine that had never...