Artistry in
Motion
“One thing leads to another.” This is the way I make art. I work in my studio with a few projects going on at once. My life is abundant with the sounds, colors and curiosity from my childhood, to the coming of age of and the flow of ideas and paradoxes, fixed values becoming fluid, and paths of bewilderment to wonder. As Whitman wrote in his Song of Myself, “I contain multitudes.” Each shows up in my writing and art, collages of color and space and there is a rhythm there. My artist friend wrote in big black letters on her studio door, “Art, like life, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
What you behold is what your eyes bring to you.
Everything is Connected
A gift of a hundred-year-old quilt made from scraps of men’s suits became the inspiration for my abstract quilt paintings. The shifting moods of the river led me into dappled water compositions. The adagietto in Mahler’s Fifth brings back the pale blue of dawn. Autumn hikes through aspen groves find their way into warm, layered fields of color—lines as imperfect and alive as the branches themselves.
Memory & Everyday Life
Winter’s log fires carry the scent of my grandfather’s cabin, where I slept with my cousins beneath worn blankets. That memory circles me back again to quilts, to fabric, to history held in fragments. One thing leads to another.
I paint white sheets pinned on a clothesline, curled birch bark peeling from trees, and other quiet moments from daily life that linger and return in unexpected ways.
A Life in Creativity
Creating art has always been a way of life. I have written books and taught courses on the creative process, Come To Your Senses, and shared music and art with school children and women in evening classes, often gathered together around conversation and wine.
My work is not about depicting reality. My Steinway, for example, appears in red—with pink pedals and black-and-white keys flying like movement and sound.
Quilting was part of the culture of my world...
Quilting was part of the culture of my world, and you’ll see that in my work. One of my favorite paintings was inspired by an antique quilt given to me by the innovative artist, Roger Thomas. It's made of the sturdy wools from fashionable suits of the 30s and 40s like those my grandfather wore to his law office on Main Street. It is obvious that the women who stitched it were artists themselves, the colors so subtle and sublime. They seemed slightly weathered, and my painting is a brighter reflection of that exquisite quilt.
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