We went out in search of purple fields. We found one, along the side of a busy highway. It was a bit too exciting to be along the side of the road, but even after more than an hour, only 1 person blew their horn as they went by at 90mph. Then we moved from…

I started the workshop on the wrong foot. With a 24 hour stomach bug, I missed the first day of fun. The second day, I felt strong enough to paint some flowers.

When I paint a horse, it isn’t just a horse. The horse represents a feeling. Horses are very expressive animals, they express joy, anger, fear, frivolity, power. A challenge for me as an artist is to show that feeling in the horse’s posture. I have been drawing horses since I was a small child. I’m…

I haven’t been blogging much lately, but be assured, I am painting and sketching. I have been working on horses, trotting, walking, galloping, jumping. Since I live in a big city, far, far away from horses, I have been relying on a book full of horse photographs taken in the 1800’s in a government funded…

Phil Williams, recently deceased, was, with his wife and partner, Vivian, one of the most important people in the folk music community in the northwest. I first learned about them in the early 1980s, because my young husband at the time had seen them at Weiser. I enjoyed going to jams at their house, and…