Trees break free from rocky soil. The sea crashes onto land. The natural world is filled with interesting and often incongruent intersections. In her paintings, French born Brussels based artist Edwige Fouvry calls our attention to those confluences to be…
Something about spring brings to mind the word lush. The landscape here in Northern California has been filled with blossoms and green. It’s like the earth is ready to explode with the joy of warmth and sun following the grey…
For painters, it can be so intoxicating to fall in love with those first strokes laid on a canvas. They can seem so pure, so guileless. It’s tempting to call it done. But what we learn over time is…
Momentum can be a tricky thing. If we’re moving in a positive direction, building and maintaing momentum is crucial. But if we’ve begun sliding into bad habits or toward danger, we need to do everything we can to stop…
Are you a piler? At any given time, we live with at least half a dozen piles scattered among us– stacks of mail, bills, laundry, books, you name it. Sometimes one pile begets another pile and so on and…
Our little apartment here in Marin County is on top of a hill, looking down on a small valley below, surrounded by trees. We delight in leaving the windows open, each glimpse out feels like the view from a…
I’ve always loved being outside. When I was young, my brother and I would spend entire Saturdays outside, only coming in when we heard my dad’s special ( and loud! ) whistle. As the years went by, it seemed…
Every place we land has a different personality, a different vibe, if you will. Yeesh, I just used the word vibe. Methinks I’ve been in California too long! The same way there is a person for everyone, there also…
Nope, I didn’t mean losing. That’s not a typo. Loosing– as in, letting go, loosening the reins, giving some slack. I’m not the best at the loosing thing. And it shows in my work sometimes. I become regimented and…
In this world of sharing every tidbit of our lives, transparency can be a blessing and a curse. A recent blog post by artist Emily Jeffords and these ink paintings by Sarah Irvin brought to mind a situation that…
