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A Hundred Reds Stacked

In Baja, Mexico, in the late afternoon, everything goes this beautiful shade of gold. The sky, the doors, the surfboards, the plants. Every color takes on a hazy, warm richness…

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She Said YES (But Her Dog Had Said Yes First)

I spent years thinking my work wasn’t good enough for a gallery. Then one day I got a bit of courage, drove to Santa Fe, mailed prints of my best work to four galleries, and showed up on a long weekend hoping for a miracle. What happened in the last…

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What a dragonfly taught me about art

I just got back from three days in the wilderness with my daughter, no phone, no notebook, no paintings, following a river up into the Trinity Alps. I didn’t go to think about art. But something found me anyway. What I saw sitting on the bank of that river taught…

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Older man with silver hair smiling at the camera in front of a vibrant abstract mural.

3 Seconds to save her creative life.

Have you ever walked into a room full of artists and immediately felt like the worst one there? Like everyone else got the memo and somehow you missed it? In this post I share a story from one of my early workshops at Esalen on the Big Sur coast, a…

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