Captivating Art for Every Space

Being a professional writer for over 40 years, my life was on “deadline.” After publishing my last piece of writing in 2019, I simply discovered I had nothing left to say. I had run out of the words that I had loved for so many years. But really, I was looking for a new “language.” I wanted to share my thoughts in a different artform. Twenty years of my forty-year-career had been spent interviewing artists for Home and Design Magazine, Chesapeake Home Magazine, and elan Magazine--all of which were dedicated to art and design. In those twenty years, I discovered visual artists and writers operate from the same personal place. What we create is our way of understanding what we’re thinking. And so, I began taking art classes with the Alexandria Art League and the Great Falls Art School. It’s been six years now, and I am ready to look at my work differently. My inspiration has been drawn from Richard Diebenkorn, Piet Mondrian, Alex Jawlensky, and countless other mid-century abstract e