I had a wonderful time in Sersale. I am using my paints to help preserve my memories. Sersale is really a small town. But they have this huge tree. I imagine in the summertime, it’s the only place to go to get out of the sun. There is a little cafe there right behind the…

Portraits can be fun, like this one of a young talented cousin of mine who resides in Rome. He’s about the same age as my sons, and I like to imagine they would have been friends if they’d grown up together. Thanks to facebook, there are always notices about which plays or films he appears…

More than 40 years ago, I lived in sunny Idaho, and grew giant sunflowers. It was so easy to do. I tried to grow some after I moved to Seattle, and found the experience to be rather discouraging, so I quit. This year, thanks to my husband’s feeding of wild birds in the yard, I…

Sometimes when searching for a subject, an artist will make splashes and color and then decide what to paint. This painting started just like that. I finished it a couple of years ago, and set it aside; it still was not pleasing to me. Last week, I looked at it and knew what I had…

It’s not often that I paint places that I’ve not seen with my own eyes; but I’ve had a snapshot of this ever since Donald went to Alaska without me. It was one of my tiny regrets, I could have taken a day or two of vacation and gone with him, but I hesitated, and…