I really wanted to have a baby. I had no idea what this would mean to my creative life; my newly honed studio practice and art based business. All I knew was that having a child “changes everything” and I didn’t want my passion for painting to be put on hold until I was suffering from empty nest syndrome. I understood pregnancy and birth was bound to change the content of my paintings. However, there was no foretelling the psychic double whammy of my pregnancy timed with the death of my mother. There was nowhere else for it to go but into my art. I completed four paintings for a show that went up at In Other Words Bookstore the final month of my pregnancy.
It’s been two years since that show and my son, Sage, is now a feisty toddler. It was the last time I was able to work to such a capacity. It is slow going now, painfully slow at times, but I am still painting. A lot of work is done internally these days, as I spend more time thinking about the concepts that inspire my work than doing the actual work. I’ve never been one for sketching, so everything gets worked out on the canvas in the limited time frames I can manage to carve out for myself.
The thing about babies is that they grow up. Now that Sage has developed to the point of being self-entertained for short spans of time, I have created this blog. It is my intention to share my painting, my progress, and the ideas that inspire me here. One day I will write a book, until that day I will blog.
Thank you for your interest in my work and my writing. I look forward to more and I hope you do too.
