So......What Makes A Great Painting The Art is nothing without the Gift,but the Gift is nothing without the Work...emile zola When Pablo Picasso was a mere fourteen years old,he visited the Prado Museum in Madrid andstood in front of this Painting by the famous...

Life Gets In Between "It's not what you do, It's how you do it. It's not what you see, It's how you look at it.Its not how your Life is, It's how you Live it". I've always loved that line from 'Pulp Fiction'......"Oh! I'm sorry, did I break your Concentration"....

Getting My Groove On 'You will never always be Motivated,so you must learn to be Disciplined'. Getting a routine going and sticking to it can be more important than having a lot of time and no Plan.My Hubby has always been a man with a Plan.He knows when he wakes...

Fifty Years In The Making So tell me ,what is it you plan to dowith your one wild andprecious Life....Mary Oliver. So at what age do you think we as humans hit our stride.Can we even put an age on it.I really don't think we can.If we take a look back at Art History...

Courage doesn’t always Roar! 'Sometimes Courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying.... I will try again tomorrow'. It is the courage to continue that counts..... This week exactly one year ago I gave up my Day job. It certainly wasn't an overnight...

Let's Pull Up A Chair​ 'The main thing is to be Moved,to Love to Hope, to Tremble to Live. Auguste Rodin. I became an Artist because of my love of Art in all it's forms and even though I'm a Figurative painter, my Love for Abstract Art goes way back.However I'm not...

Paint-Stained Hands Aldous Huxley once wrote.... The Secret of Genius is to carry the Spirit of the Child into old age, which means, Never losing your Enthusiasm. I love the practice of Painting at every stage, from blank canvas to the finished painting and...

Back to The Studio, New Feels, New Chances, Same Dreams In the Universe there are things that are Known and things that are Unknown, and in between there are Doors..... I know that I'm a Mother and I'm an Artist. I show up everyday to the Studio and do the Work Its...