Paintings

Fall art at the Wheeler Memorial Library Children's Room.

More fun making art with children. The pallet is all from the natural world. The canvas was a block print of tree rings. Look at what they did!

News Flash

Bill and Christine at the State House in Boston where I and other grantees were honored as “creative individuals” - me for the children’s books about the New England forest and my work with children in MA public parks and venues, and my other fellow grantees who paint, write, play music, dance, create theater, create movies and video, create fiber art, and so much more. Thank you to Mass Cultural Council for supporting those who add so much to the society and culture of our state!! And thank you for affirming me for the work of my “third age.” Visit them at https://lnkd.in/dH6bwM_Q
Autumn in the Forest has once again been chosen for a woodland story walk, this time by Mount Grace Land Trust. Also the book will be featured as the October book in the Reach Out and Read Together program by Donna Boock.

2025: Winter in the tropics

I was fortunate to spend some time in Vieques this winter. I took my watercolor supplies - so much easier to carry around than oils. (I looked at a LOT of Winslow Homer in the Bahamas. Check out his watercolors, truly an inspiration.) Painting encourages me to look and helps me see. It was so fun despite the barking of downstairs guard dogs, (whom I cajoled with treats,) and roosters waking me at 3 am. As one friend explained, "This is not paradise, this is the tropics." It was both for me...

2024

I'm currently exploring big representations of a small world and small paintings of a big world. Our perception of space and distance can be surprisingly accommodating. How we interpret and make meaning from two dimensional marks is what draws us in. I would like to get even more abstract. I also illustrate children's books about the natural world. My paintings inform these illustrations which are more representational and descriptive but still loose.

Spring and Summer 2024 have been busy and wonderful. The show at Holyoke State Park was such a privilege and working with visiting children was a highlight. What fun to paint woodpeckers together. Then there was travel to Madison for a big Children and Nature Network conference. Now I'm being a bit more quiet and reflective in the studio. Enjoy.