I’m so happy to be settling into my new studio space and starting to paint again! I missed you guys and I have missed creating so much! It has been a long year: selling our house of 17 years, buying a new house and setting up a new studio. I am so glad that we decided to go ahead and make the move but it has been a huge distraction for me (this is the longest that I have been away from painting in over a decade). It has been hard to get the wheel turning again once you’ve stopped for awhile. Like I have said many times, ‘Inspiration finds us when we are working’, so in order to get working, I gave myself a deadline… or rather, OLGA did HAHA! SO, I am back, slowly but surly, and I am participating in The Holiday Auction with Heartful Soul Artist Collective. My day will be November 8-9. I hope you will be there to support me and all of the fellow artists that are also participating.

The following original paintings will be in The Holiday Auction

I have been thinking a lot about how we can sometimes poison our own dreams with doubts, fears and paying way too much attention to those negative voices in our heads. Having many goals and dreams can almost make us more vulnerable. It seems the more ambitions we can gives self doubt a better chance to hit us with their poisonous pill. In this painting, as with most of my art, I am trying to work through what it is going on in my life and the lives of the people I am closest to. I find this process healing and it can also help me understand my feelings, all the while putting something of beauty back into the world. It is like sucking in the negativity of the world and putting something positive in its place.