It was fun to share the evolution of my artwork into wallpaper and pillow designs and hopefully inspire teens through The Tribal Series to feel a sense of belonging as they step away from devices and social media. It was on Virginia This Morning on CBS 6 with Jessica Noll . Thanks to them, Meridith Ingram and R•Home magazine ! Current artwork is on display Puck’s Market and wallpaper and pillows Palette Home.
Sharing RHome
THE CREATIVES
A big THANKS to Meridith Ingram, Brooke Chappell, Jay Paul, and Lee Hawkins for their Sept-Oct 2018 RHome issue #rhomemag The Creatives!!! And thanks to Williams & Sherrill Interiors, Richmond, VA for carrying my wallpaper line!! A shout out to Leah Muhlenfeld for her support! All of you have been a pleasure to work with!
I'm loving the process of Painting and Creating Wallpaper. It makes me happy to get it into homes to inspire the creativity that lives inside each of you! God calls us to use our gift ... go ahead!!!
Sharing ... Silence
In reading this month's Town & Country I came across an article that "spoke" to me. And it was ironically titled: Do Not Speak. In our digital charged world, I am not alone in craving peace and quite. This article lists places people pay for just that. Their called digital detox camps as people realize their addiction. It sites the proven benefits of silence from a Duke University study. They found mice that had two hours of silence everyday, had triggered brain cell development. And in a study in the journal of Heart, found that silence had more of a calming effect on breathing and blood pressure than even soothing music.
Enjoy some silence!
Sharing Japanese Aesthetics
new piece
Sunday's sermon in Richmond, VA was the first time I'd heard of Wabi-sabi. It means finding beauty in broken parts. Wabi-sabi originates from Japanese aesthetics and celebrates imperfection in art. Seemingly the opposite of the Western world. As I start a new series, this phrase seems timely and appropriate to use as it's cornerstone. More to come ...
Richmond Home 2013
Sharing ... Flaws
Summer 2012
Daring Greatly - Brene Brown
Perfection is self-destruction. Perfection is addictive. "I'm not interested in hiding my flaws ... it's important to have self-kindness, especially when we fail."Perfection stifles creativity. From Leonard Cohen's song "Anthem":"There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
Sharing and Relating to Robert Motherwell
Motherwell: Beside The Sea
In October 2011, I was reading
Robert Motherwell by Dore Ashton, Robert Buck and Flam
These few sentences grabbed me as I could completely relate to them:"The painting are not skills, that can be taught, but a process, whose content is found, subtle and deeply felt; that no true artist ends with the style that he expected to have when he began, anymore than anyone's life unrolls in the particular manner that one expected when young: that it is only by giving oneself completely to the painting medium that one finds oneself and one's own style ... such is the experience of the School of New York."The physical act of the hand moving in a painting is of great importance, it cannot be detached from the meaning of the image itself. The hand moves, feeling is transmitted. A gesture makes feeling intelligible.On p. 12, I like how Motherwell responds when asked, "what does the painting mean?""There are so many levels. So many decisions made through the creation of the painting that it becomes a slice of life ... a 'voyage'."Naming a painting is a primitive, inadequate but deeply rooted way of identifying the ineffably complex nature of reality."An artistic medium is the only thing in human existence that has precisely the same range of sensed feeling as people themselves do -"'The inner world' of the artist was a complicated human affair, and consequently difficult to express. That is why I invented my art. In this sense art is a necessity, a natural out growth of man's life."And it is our pictures, not ourselves, that live the social life and meet the public ... It is interesting that the creations of solitary individuals should turn out to have such a gift of socialibilty!" - Abrams (Wallace Art Gallery)p. 23 "My hand just flies and I do not even have to think; my my hand just does it, as though I am not there."p. 25 "It is more what you unconsciously know then what you think. In fact, I would say that most good painters don't know what they think until they paint it."p. 30 The central problem for all modernists remains:1. How to insure meaning which requires a certain amount of stability2. How to change meanings which requires a certain amount of innovation and disequilibrium.In short: a surprise. How far to go?