Wishing you all the best, now and in the new year! Thank you so much for all your support!
2022 has been a wild ride here filled with many firsts: my first full year in my newly built studio (thank you to everyone who celebrated with me at my Open Studio in August!), first artist residency (at the Hive), first time getting a painting in a Northwest Watercolor Society Show, first time having my paintings turned into public art (Four utility box wraps-one in Spokane and three in SeaTac) as well as a return to more familiar things such as a busy art festival season. It’s been wonderful to get to see your faces and talk in person again. I have missed that! New ventures such as teaching a flower painting class at Barn & Blossom, a local nursery on the South Hill and doing a sketchcrawl with the Center for Children’s Book Arts from their location to Riverfront Park kept me fresh. It is always a delight to initiate people into the joy that is making art. I also tried to take some time off from work and spent a bit of time on the shores of various lakes with family and friends culminating in an epic road trip with a childhood friend to Glacier National Park. All those lakes are frozen over now or at least on their way to it and my breath hangs in the air like mist as I walk to my studio. Ice gilds the frozen ground and tan, dried grass pokes out from beneath crusty snow piles. The days are getting shorter and shorter as the night lengths. When I step out of my studio at the end of the day, I see the moon rising through the branches of the trees, a silver disk, shining in the deep, indigo sky, lighting my path. The night is hushed, snow glittering like the stars above. All is calm, all is bright, somehow even in the darkness, as I head homeward. Wishing you peace and joy in both dark and day to light your way.
