Painting with an audience is like stepping up to the plate – all eyes are on your every move! It is exhilarating, challenging AND very vulnerable! I’m so thankful to the staff of the North Vancouver Opus who welcomed me and helped me set up the demos that I hosted in the store. Waiting with……
Category: Abstract paintings
I’m thankful for me (my inside me that is)!
I know that sounds kind of pompous so I’ll explain. Up until a few years ago my most predominant self-talk was judgmental and pretty cruel. I could hold space for everyone else. I could find love and compassion for everyone else’s imperfections but not my own. The voice inside my head that spoke to me……
What do you dream of?
I’ll tell you that I’ve dreamt about being a painter for as long as I can remember. I didn’t believe that I ever would be for almost as equally long. Thankfully something shifted. I can’t remember the circumstances. You would think it would have been a dramatic epiphany, but no. It could have been one……
I’ve had this torrid love affair with painting.
In the early years, we broke up — several times, followed by intensely passionate make up sessions. It was guilt that held me back. Guilt that I should be doing something else and that my love was a waste of productive time. I should be working at something that paid an hourly wage. I should be spending……
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