Working with Adversity
Hi Friends, I was working in the studio last week under suboptimal conditions. The weather was hot and it was super low humidity, which can affect my paintings ...
Facing Fear
Greetings Friends, I succumbed to fear for a moment this week. The synagogue shootings, pipe bombs in the mail, three amber alerts on my cell phone in two days,...
The Rise of the Sacred Feminine
Hello Friends, For the last several thousand years, our world has been dominated by patriarchy, which elevates God the Father over Mother Earth, and man over wo...
Backwards Thinking
Greetings Friends, One of the first things taught in marketing is to look for a problem or a need, and then create a product or service that fulfills that need....
Transitions
Hello Friends, It’s been a whirlwind of a week for me. My father passed away unexpectedly last week, and then I had ArtWalk Ventura over the weekend ̵...
A Little Good News
Greetings Friends, Hot on the heels of last week’s newsletter about the gender gap in art prices comes a story in the New York Times recommending the purc...
Pay Disparity in the Art World
Hi Friends, NPR did a story last week about the gender gap in prices paid for art. I didn’t even know there was a gender gap in the art world. What they f...
Becoming Alive
Greetings Friends, I’ve been hearing this message a lot lately: “Do what makes you feel alive” and “The world is waiting for people who ...
Help a Cat and Save on Holiday Gifts
Hi Friends, My neighbor Rita and I are trying to save a seven-year-old semi-feral cat named Cujo. Cujo was abandoned a couple of years ago, and Rita has been gr...
Where is Home?
Hi Friends, When I moved to Ventura, my furniture was in place, but everything else was in boxes. One of the first things I did was to hang some of my paintings...