I started painting this group of six 8”x8” canvases in April 2025. I grouped them all together as you see here, and started by painting them with the same several colors, as can be seen in the photo at the bottom of this post. I had the foresight to take a photo of that round, then the next 2 rounds, up to this one you see today.

This week brought me the energy to complete paintings in progress, and find some improbable tales to tell about them too.

Yes, I’ve got flowers on the brain right now.

It’s summer and they’re growing everywhere, which all on its own is a miraculous gift from the earth.

This is my story about the Big White Fish.

You’re welcome to have your own story too.

A big white fish falls asleep in a hot pink watery place, and has a dream about a diver who comes to visit her.

How breaking my wrist helped me find a new painting style.

It wasn’t my intention to break my wrist, and I don’t recommend it. It was the first time in my life (and I’m old now) that I had a broken bone, and also had surgery.

A series is a group of paintings that go together, though they don’t have to hang together for each to make sense to the viewer.

When I work in a series, I make sure that each painting has its own unique quality, its own energy.

The title of this painting is a reminder to myself, as an artist and human being, to trust the process I have set into motion.

As many of my paintings have been, this one was a surprise when it showed up looking like this, and I wisely declared it complete.

One of the most valuable skills I’ve acquired over the years is the permission to experiment.

Experimenting is different from trying to produce a perfect completed product. Experimenting, in my experience, has been crucial to helping me find my way through so much in my life, creatively and otherwise.

The planets are dancing!

The music of the planets is beautiful to hear. The trick to hearing it is to really listen, which requires stillness, a valuable and sometimes rare commodity in these times.

The ‘Explosion Series’ started off innocently enough as an exploration into ‘how do I want to paint THIS time?’.

After years of not painting, (a conscious decision on my part in which I was creating and building my psychic practice and business, which also means I was choosing to create myself in a whole new way) - it became clear to me that it was time to paint again.