Last May I took a driving trip through Andalucia with my husband. I took a lot of photos and when I got home I decided to turn them into an art journal. I’ve posted the results in a new gallery. . . . → Read More: Andalucia art journal
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A few weeks ago I started a new series of paintings based on movement and intuition. It’s a new thing for me — painting from my gut instead of my eyes and my head. The truth is I think too much and I talk too much, and so I’m trying to just shut up and [...] . . . → Read More: Adventures in Abstraction I first read “Burnt Norton” when I was about 15 years old, and it blew me away. My dad had read me the section of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man about 4 or 5 years earlier, and that had become the standard I used to think of infinity and the [...] . . . → Read More: Art Journaling – T.S. Eliot’s “Burnt Norton” I’ve been working on a series of art journal pages based on my favorite poems. “Tyger Tyger” was one of the first poems that ever captured my imagination, as a small child. My dad read it to me (and defined the word “symmetry” for me), and it was the first time that words ever evoked [...] . . . → Read More: Art Journaling – William Blake’s “Tyger Tyger” Before I moved to Berlin in 2005, I was pretty much a country & suburbs girl. I hadn’t lived in a city since I was a small child, and I thought I could never survive it. Don’t get me wrong — I love cities, when I’m visiting and can immerse myself in the music, sights, [...] . . . → Read More: Art Journaling – Dreams – City Another journal I keep going is devoted to political doodles and sketches. Here’s an entry responding to the Obama administration’s failure to honor his promises about repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the military. Every time I think about this issue, I get really angry that Republicans can continue to deny American soldiers their basic [...] . . . → Read More: Art Journaling – Political Pages – Don’t Ask & Minarets I keep several art journals going at one time. One of them is devoted to recreating the imagery and the words that appear in my dreams. This page, called “Secret Garden Heart Fire,” is the latest in the series, and comes from the repeated image of a woman standing in flames, completely calm, on fire [...] . . . → Read More: Art Journaling – Dreams – Secret Garden Heart Fire When I journal, I have about a dozen pages going at the same time. This is the first in the Poet’s Series to come to completion, based on Wallace Steven’s “The Idea of Order at Key West.” I’ve posted the poem at the end, so you can see if my image matches up in your [...] . . . → Read More: Art Journaling – Wallace Steven’s “The Idea of Order at Key West” I woke up one morning a month or two ago and realized I hadn’t read a poem in years. For some folks, that’s business as usual — a lot of people don’t care for poetry. I, on the other hand, had been chided even by my intellectual parents for the obsessive nature of my [...] . . . → Read More: Art Journaling – A Series Dedicated to My Favorite Poems I was so pleased with my first ventures into bead embroidery that I tackled a very ambitious project for April. Experienced bead embroiderers may be unsurprised that it took me six months to gather enough spare time to finish it! It was a wonderful learning experience, but put me so far behind with my bead [...] . . . → Read More: April Doll Finished! |
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