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the crossroads of art and life
October Fog
October mornings—when not frosty—are usually adrift with fog in pocket valleys. This weekend marked the peak of color for autumn foliage and the mist and sun only amplified the treetops. I had a long drive from here to the Red Horse Winery to help pick La Crescent...
Good Morning Weekend
Here's a little weekend watercolor applied over an ink drawing I did a while ago. It's part of this collection if you'd like to see more. Wishing you a happy weekend and some creativity or exploring on your horizon. I am painting and sewing this morning, and then will...
Late Summer Foraging
Are you a forager? In spring I dig up ramps and cut fiddleheads. I love to find raspberries, blackberries and untended apple trees. But other than morels, which I can identify well, I'm a little timid to collect and eat...
Abandoned
I drive by this alpine meadow near my house most days and see a shingled roof up there through the trees. I've been so curious about this cabin since glimpsing it for the first time last year. So a few weeks ago I was traveling past mid-morning on a weekday and I had...
Nöel
Holiday Greetings from our hilltop valley. It is unseasonably warm, and when we walked this morning it felt like spring garden planting weather, not the season of candlelight, bayberry scent and eggnog by the fire. The woodland is so lush and green with moss and ferns...
Gudrun Friends Journal
A few weeks ago I was invited to journal for a week as a friend of Gudrun Sjoden, the Swedish designer whose art, home and clothing lines epitomize everything I love about design. Her art is infused with color, pattern, whimsy, beauty, ethnicity and a nod toward...
Walking Your Hen. Vermont. Paris.
Tori and her chicken Wanda, Marguerite and her Parisian chicken
A Farewell of Sorts
It's been nearly a year since I've written. As the months yawned on since last June, I couldn't think how to synthesize what I wanted to say. So the long and short of it, is that we are moving on from our little house on the hill. Not without some reluctance, but also...
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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