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Post Couch to Canvas Show Musings
The show is not what I originally had planned. I signed up to do it early last fall when I was feeling really good about my life, like I had the energy to execute my vision. I had solid recent works I...
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Paintings from the show...The Process of Laying It Down and Picking It Back Up
The Process of Laying It Down and Picking It Back Up (assemblage version), 2019Oil on panel24” x 30”This piece started out as a series of small watercolor studies that I did to try and reclaim and heal...
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Paintings from the show....The Fire Inside Her Burned Brighter
The Fire Inside Her Burned Brighter, 1998Oil on panel12” x 20”This is the oldest piece I had hanging in my solo show Couch to Canvas.In 1997 I had returned to SUU after separating from my first husband...
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Paintings from the show....Finding Out I'm the Sister-of-Jared (or Tight Like...
Finding Out I’m the Sister-of-Jared (or Tight Like a Dish), 2019Oil on panel18” x 36” Here what it's about.One day I was lamenting to my therapist about how I didn’t think I could take anymore, go any...
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Paintings from the show....Kitty Hawk
Kitty Hawk (assemblage version), 2018Watercolor and paper24” x 30” This is a portrait of Nora. Nora is a spitfire of a girl whose personality reached out to me so strongly, that I could feel it over...
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Paintings from the show....What He Threw Away
That's me as a first time bride in 1995.And that's me, divorced, in 1997 and standing next to the only time I ever showed this painting of my first ex-husband, Doug, until showing it in my solo show,...
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Paintings from the show...In the Eye of the Beholder
In the Eye of the Beholder, 2012Oil and gold leaf on panel14” x 18”I did this piece when I first found out I had the degenerative eye disease called keratoconus.I was full of fear.Losing my eyesight...
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It's Not Just About The Lump
I wasn't planning on publicly sharing this, but after watching a variety of different types of posts on social media yesterday (which was International Women's Day for whatever that means and whoever...
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We cannot change what we do not acknowledge. I am by no means an expert on race or history. I am just someone who didn’t know what I didn’t know until I needed to know it. Because it is my honor to be...
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Thoughts On Palm Sunday
Some thoughts on this Palm Sunday 2019Today the Christian world commemorates the entering of Jesus into Jerusalem. In fulfillment of prophecy, Jesus entered Jerusalem on the back of a donkey, was...
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