Hi

Just writing to let you know that I am adjusting to my new surroundings, which include the dawn of new beginnings and the mourning of old endings. I have physically moved away from family, friends, support systems, and home, and found myself with out internet or phone for the last month. There has been plenty to do with a good job, wonderful students and stacks of syllabi. But above all I try to digest a new found and mostly awkward silence and, when I start to panic, I make room for stillness.
I bought canvases last week!

You can hide

multiple sins with a paintbrush....

Trying to get the house in shape to rent out.

8 x 6 inches mixed media- acrylic with metallic leaf on wood

HOUSE STILL AVAILABLE FOR RENT

Living room shot

acrylic on panel
9 x 17 inches

I am doing a visual inventory before undertaking to pack everything up, put the house up for rent, and move.

hall shot

Studio Shot

bare bones series

Here are a two of my limited series of skeletal studies painted on wood panels, 4 x 6 inches
I am trying to get them out of my system, and paint them without focusing on personality or morbidity. It's not an easy assignment for myself.

Home... grows on you

work in process...
Here are three things not even close to being done. I love the studio when the paint is wet and projects line up.

the beginings of a bleeding heart

Trail of the nightgown

There are days I shouldn't get out of bed. My mind jumps to fantasies...dreamy mornings roll into steamy afternoons, and musical evenings.
5 x 7 inches, acrylic paint on nice thick arches paper

House of Lies

This is living with an addict.

Nests in the past

I love these two paintings... even though they were painted in times of struggle. I felt very alone building the nest... even though my husband worked the farm and was managing the addition onto the house, I was often alone. It felt as though I had really gone out on a limb being a wife and mother.  The long narrow painting was about Time and the midnight care of my son that probably connected me to other mothers across the globe. I consoled myself with the thought that while I was up nursing, rocking, and living without sleep, other women were in their own houses doing it too. I collaged individual panels of house shaped wood panels so that we would really be connected.

WINDOW WITH LAMP

"Wait"
Be still.
The voice of God is in the stillness. The path is still clouded, but soon I will trust the way to be shown.
9 x 9 inches

I arrived at 1:29am

6 x 6 inches acrylic on wood

Just recently I had my birth-chart prepared by Leigh Oswald. She was able, by recording and anticipating the track of the planets from the time of my birth and over the years, to give some amazing precise details about my life's path. She also gave me an acceptance and understanding of my motivations and needs as well. I highly recommend her if you are in an uncomfortable time and unsure what is going on. Some of what she told me actually helped me be kinder to myself.

I was born in the middle of the night at the first part of a new day. My mother used all the drugs the doctors would provide and says the delivery was quiet psychedelic.

$48