From the monthly archives:
About to burst…
I can’t believe how lush and luscious these blossoms are…the bush is next to my Studio and the scent blows in through the windows when there’s a breeze… heavenly!
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Had a pleasant surprise today when I stopped into ValeriesGallery in Newburyport this afternoon and found out that one of my paintings had sold! The painting is called “Up Hill” and it was done on Monhegan Island off the coast of Maine. The timing couldn’t have been better because I’m headed back there next week for a few days [...]
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I’ve been wanting to do a painting of the shorebirds that I see racing in the sand at Crane Beach for a long time now. Usually I don’t sketch before I start painting…I just like to dive in with color but this time I did a few quick sketches from memory to get started . This [...]
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I never planted these poppies in my garden … they just showed up!
I’m pretty sure that they “tagged along” with some ferns that a friend shared with me. It makes me smile to see a burst of orange in my otherwise “all white garden” !
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Ten years ago when I still owned and ran my shop “Eliza Grays Goods” I have to admit that I was a bit stressed at times! My boys were twelve and ten years old and my husband was traveling alot for business. I was trying to do it all…painting, parenting, practicing Yoga, and more. That’s when I [...]
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“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.”
~Abraham Maslow
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I began my day this morning wandering in my “Meditation garden”. I guess you could say it was a walking meditation because my heart opened wide when I walked by the white “bleeding heart” bush dripping with blossoms.
For the past ten years I have been practicing a method of Heart Meditation that I learned from Susanna Bair when she lived [...]
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