Forrest, 40 × 36 × 1.5 inches, acrylic on canvas, 2025

Winter is the perfect season for being an artist. It is a great time to slow down, be still, go inward, shelter in place…..all the qualities that are essential for creating. Naturally we think of summarizing our year and thinking of what we want our lives to bring us next year, and, so it is also the perfect time to wonder, to be curious and to ask questions. and tend to the unseen.

There is something about endings that invites this curiosity. Winter seems like an ending or a pause and I liken it to the finishing of a painting or a body of work. It is an affirmation of a cycle, a wholeness, and a chance to review the process and the results. A chance to go deeper into the heart of what really matters.

I take time to enjoy who I am and what I am doing. I feel how special it is to nourish my creativity and to share it with others. I fall in love all over again with color, shape, my studio, and everyone who shares this world with me. And, I rejoice in my happiness.

So when I wonder deeper into my what and why, I feel the very essence of my being—— joy, love, creativity and all flows naturally.

With a heart full of love, I wish us all Peace on Earth and Love and Kindness to all Beings.