What a cool commission!

The Bellevue Club wants a Little Free Library in their Children’s Study Area and hired me to design & paint one.

Without the Little Free Library last month….

Take a book,
Leave a book.

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Next Up: Cannon Beach, Oregon, with my sister, Jane….

Teaching at “my” gallery in Cannon Beach, OR: the House of Orange…

Jane, walking the beach….

Romeo & Juliet, framed oil painting, 24”x24”, SOLD

Small Town, Big Sky, oil on cradled hardwood birch board, 12” x 18”, just delivered and available

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Upcoming at the Bellevue Club: four artists….

“Behind the Canvas Finale”….a studio sale on Wed Oct 7, 4:30-6:30pm

Twins, oil on cradled hardwood birch board, 18”x24”, framed

Images (above & below) of a few of my paintings that will be on sale….

Sunset at Shilshole, oil on cradled hardwood birch board, 16” x 28”, framed

Breaking Open, oil on cradled hardwood birch board, 18” x24”, framed

“A Clear Summer Day”, oil on cradled birch board, 24” x 36”, at House of Orange Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR

Interesting & fun night in the Atrium at the Bellevue Club.
Each of the four artists did demos of their individual creative process.

Friends, family, and members strolled from artist-to-artist sipping wine and snacking, too.

This commission for Glendale Country Club was a highlight experience for me this past year!

My newest work inspired by aerial views, from around the world, goes up at Fogue Studios & Gallery for January & February.

“Why, Indonesia, why?”, oil on hardwood board, 24”x 36”

“Nelson & the Mississippi”, oil on hardwood board, 24” x 18”

“Road Trip in Dubai”, oil on canvas, 18” x 24”

A very interesting day in September on the 2nd Annual Issaquah Studio Tour…what surprised me were how many in-depth conversations I had with the curious visitors. Process, process, process…

Wiilam Cook’s Studio….I shared his space for the Studio Tour….

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Newest Work in Collage for Vetiver & Sundew

Productive & Dreamy, mixed media, 12” x 18” x 1.5”, $400

Lost & Found, mixed media, 14” x 11” 1.5”, $425

The Excavation of Experience, colored pencil on archival rag paper, 32” x 21” x 2”, custom framed, $525

“Dreamy Stillness”, oil on hardwood board, 18” x 24”, custom framed

“Two Trees”, oil on canvas, 30” x 40”, custom framed, $2,200

Fogue Studios & Gallery, Georgetown, Seattle. Open Wed—Sunday, 12—5pm. 5519 Airport Way, S

A weekend of painting demos at the gallery in Cannon Beach. Spring Unveiling Arts Festival

House of Orange Gallery, 107 Sunset Blvd Cannon Beach, OR. 97110 (503) 436-4231

Fogue Studios & Gallery, Georgetown, Seattle, WA

Above: Here is Kerry…owner and “Accidental Curator” of Fogue….

The wonderful Carolyn Autenrieth and me: Pre-SnapChat silliness….

…and here we again…with SnapChat….

2nd Saturday of every month is Georgetown Art Attack from 5-8pm…public welcome!

Acrylics 101 at the Bellevue Club…in the Polaris Conference Room…my September students!

ARTfuel Workshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico!

Yes, friends…we tend to get wild & crazy at Fogue Studios.
Here are buddies Mike & Kate Lipe and the glorious owner of Fogue, Kerry Gates!

Working the wine bar with Anjanette Hewitt….

Fellow artists Carol Ross and Carol Whitaker….

Trains, oil on canvas, 24” x 36”, custom framed

Kerry Gates, owner of Fogue Studios & Gallery, sold Trains to one of her Fogue collectors! They sent Kerry a photo of the spot they chose in their home.

An extremely talented and industrious group of students!

I am moving back into my natural habitat: teaching!

Four students, no experience necessary, build their own canvas…at Happy Time Studio in Issaquah.

There is meaning and joy in art-making with a mini-community!

Always a great exhibition in a fascinating and welcoming gallery on Camano Island!
Matzke Fine Art Gallery & Sculpture Park

The Stairway, oil on canvas, 18” x 24”, $700

Kindergarten Art Docent at Sunset Elementary School in Issaquah….

Yep, I’m back to my natural habitat: teaching!
I volunteered to be the Art Docent for Kindergarten at Sunset Elementary School in Issaquah.

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And that experience led me to Happy Time Studio in Issaquah
….to teach a beginning painting class to adults.

Acrylics 101, March 18 & 25, 5—7:30pm

Find out more: Happy Time Studio

The Studio Sale, “4 Journeys”, featured paintings by Carol Ross, Julie Rackley, Carol Whitaker and me.

Lots and lots of friends and family came and shopped…my smile muscles hurt after the event!

Reflections Magazine Sept/Oct 2023

A short video history of the Women Painters of Washington, founded in 1930.

The view from a bedroom at Villa Maddalena, our home for six days & nights.

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Retreat To Tuscany, with leaders Theresa Callahan & Nicole Privett, was a unique Life experience for me.

Villa Maddalena (500 years old) is in the medieval village of Montisi, right in the heart of Tuscany… think olive orchards, farm animals, cheese, and wine.

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OK…my Bliss…78 degrees in October, and a day at a Spa with mineral springs used since Roman times!