Artist

Watercolor is my passion.

It’s also one of my ways of interacting with the world but it wasn’t always so. In fact, I only began to practice watercolors just this past January. As someone whose primary means of communication has always been words, (writing and speaking…. sooo many words ) it happened that around the first of the year (2020) I suddenly began to have less to say. That initially made me nervous, but then I became curious and began to wonder if there was some other form of creativity I might try in the meantime, because surely the words would return, right?

And so I chose the words “curious” and “experiment” as my “words of the year.” I was curious about so many things but it felt like the unopened palette of watercolors I’d bought myself for my birthday three years ago was whistling at me every time I opened the cabinet where I’d stashed them. Photos I saw on Instagram seemed to shout, “Paint me! Paint me!” I started dreaming about colors flowing and splashing into each other. So I began painting simple flowers…

then some silly birds…

and before I knew it, I found myself watching less nighttime TV and staying up late to paint. I became “curiouser and curiouser” about this amazing art form I’d discovered. When friends began to ask me if my paintings were for sale, I said maaaaybe. Someday.

Someday came quicker than I thought and it has been thrilling that so many have chosen my art to hang on their walls!

Here are some examples of recent paintings