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the crossroads of art and life
Finding The Lost Garden
Fall is here and I'm still nursing an elbow injury that I got last April right before we moved to The Little Brick. My ideas for a summer of gardening had to be put aside. No serious digging, pruning or shovel work for me. So I took to the gardens and field with my...
Painting Under the Sky
WHEN YOU PACK UP your tubes of paint, brushes, fold up easel, and all the rest, you find out quickly what you forgot as you set up to paint outside on a summer day. When it's hot and sunny I often forget my hat. Sunscreen sometimes too. (Luckily I paint with a group,...
Inside the Photograph: Rodney Smith
In February my husband gave me a Valentine card of "Couple Kissing, London England," by Rodney Smith. At first, I thought it was a painting (in the spirit of Andrew Wyeth). R's message began with: "Look at that fireplace! Look at that cat! Look at those heels!" I just...
Life at the Crossroad
Back in 2010 I subtitled my new blog 129 Twig and Vine 'At the Intersection Between Art and Life. All these years later, I am living—literally—at an intersection. We moved into the little brick house in ate April and the year of work is slowly ebbing from our achy...
The Little Brick House on the Corner
There is a little village near here where my family lives. My brother and his wife moved there in 1995, and this small town—with only a couple hundred residents—took them in. My parents bought a house around the corner from my brother in 2004, and also became active...
Frosty Feeling, Antidote: Hygge
Welcome January. I guess. The world is frosty, and I'm working to warm my heart to the hard work ahead. Outside the windows it's fairly bleak and monochrome. But red, green and blue keep popping up saying, "Hey look at me!!" Safe marching in Washington, Sisters. In...
New Clothes for an Old Sofa
Most of our furniture is gleaned from family houses, the curb or swapped with friends. I like the eclectic nature of the whole. But we do have a sofa that we acquired new in the late 1990s when I did design work for a furniture store and was paid in furniture. We...
Grape Picking in a Vermont Vineyard
I can already feel the indoor dayscreeping upon us. So a weekendoutdoors among the vines wasa welcome invitation. My brother began planting a vineyard for Red Horse winery six years ago, and this year was a bumper crop for the two white and one red variety of grapes...
See Original Art Here
- First Branch Coffee
- Artistree Gallery, Pomfret, Vermont— Five pieces in Small Works exhibit, open through December 21
- In my home studio by appointment
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- Experiment with Watercolor - 3 part class in January 2025, Pomfret, VT
- Abstracted Landscape with Acrylics - 1 day workshop, February 2, Pomfret, VT
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