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Let’s talk about the “ugly middle”—a stage in the creative process that has haunted me for years. I first recognized it in my Hollywood studio, across from the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Sunset Boulevard. It was a beautiful, light-filled space…

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." — Arthur Ashe Here we are at the start of a new year. Some of us have just listened to an incoming administration speak of a so-called “Golden…

Driving home after a day of painting in the studio, I am starving. I fantasize about the food I’ll pull together when I get home. What do we have? Who is eating? What can I cut up first to satisfy…

The beginning of autumn is like a second new year -- as life's rhythms return after the busy summer months, we often find ourselves revisiting our goals and recommitting to those things we had felt so strongly about at the…

It Was All a Dream, now on view in my gallery in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA, is an abstract impressionistic painting that came to life through many weeks of adding and removing layers. The joy of peeling away acrylic skin and paper…

In 2021, Carmel photographer, Randy Tunnell came into my gallery on Dolores St. to introduce himself and tell me about his artist portrait project. He was planning to photograph artists in our natural habitats and exhibit the photographic portraits at…