What Flow Looks Like Today

07/22/2026

Playing with layers Woodstock School of Art with Melanie Delgado thank you for a convivial, flow time workshop!

07/14/2026

Having an “it’s all about the light” moment. And I love when transformations happen. It’s a small piece, 8”x8”. Corner of a couch? Gives me a Diebenkorn-ish feeling. I had put this piece to the side and today pulled it out to see where it might take me with no expectations. Tomorrow I may look and say no, but today it’s a yes.

06/25/2026

I started making what I call ‘color notes’ a few years ago. It’s a practice that helps me translate/view how a color sits in relationship to another color. In that I don’t keep a ‘formal’ sketchbook, though I have a dozen, all headed in different directions and dedicated to different parts of my practice, this is the closest I get to formalizing something before launching into work. It’s a happy launch pad.

In life, in painting, and in color:

“You have to recognize the value of the thing you were not expecting” —Megan Rooney

05/17/2026

A whirlwind first week from the Bay of Arcachon to the Gardens of Marqueyssac. Parts of Bordeaux and Perigord France.

04/12/2026

The MassArt auction! Attended for the first time last night and as you can hear the live auction had some exciting moments… Cindy Sherman photo going up up up.

Lovely to support this institution. First image is their dorm bldg across from the main Tower building, it’s beautiful day and night.

04/08/2026

Latest book security pile.
Already well into Troublemaker about muckraker Jessica Mitford and thoroughly enjoying.
When Women Were Birds, gifted to me by a friend, is a wonderful entry into the world of Terry Tempest Williams. The Glorians is her latest. She’s a fierce ally and more of what we need right now.
That and birds!. Some say it’s a sign of old age to enjoy birds, I believe it’s a sign of a thoughtful life and noticing what the world needs now. Thank you Amy Tan.
Writer Olivia Laing and Chantal Joffe became friends and created a monograph about their friendship often deep in conversation about their painting and writing. Love being a fly on the wall. And Olivia’s beautiful language around Chantal’s inimitable personal oeuvre.
Joan Eardley is a Scottish painter that I admire greatly, there’s an exhibition of her work right now at the National Galleries of Scotland, wish I could be there. The Artist’s Palette looks at 50 famous artists’ palettes. Right in my color-loving wheelhouse.
And well I couldn’t resist reading a take on How Painting Happens and Why It Matters…🤔😊

What are you reading?

04/01/2026

Rite of Spring! The MassArt Auction 2026

Massachusetts College of Art and Design

03/29/2026

Needed to post something inspiring. This is a quick oil pastel I created in a recent workshop with looking at Gabrele Münter’s artwork. It makes me happy to look at it, I cannot tell you why. (Thank you ) Scroll left to see Munter’s original artwork. There’s an exhibition of Münter’s work at the Guggenheim in NYC through April 26th, maybe I’ll get there.😊

02/22/2026

Rückenfigur

Visitation: Artist at the Window Collage, 19.5”x 25.5” framed In naming this collage for a juried show, I came across the term Rückenfigur (translated directly: back-figure). It's a compositional device that uses a foregrounded figure, seen from behind, contemplating the view before them. Often...