Why Your Most Powerful Art Can Come From Your Hardest Seasons
When life changes in a big way, art isn’t something to wait on until you feel great. It can be the tool you use to find your way out and…
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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…
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…
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…
