Art and Passion

Nature’s Drama of June 1 was unsettling and the funnel cloud traveled in a random pattern throughout Western Mass. I was in the basement with my 4 year old grandson, watching the eerie color outside as the 100 mile per hour winds uprooted trees and tore my fence apart. It was frightening. It was like…

UMASS Lecture

In July, I was asked to give a lecture for Senior EdVentures at UMASS, my alma mater.  It was good going back there as a teacher, and the group was so responsive.  My lecture had to do with 3 artists that used Word and Image, drawn from several lectures given for the International Society of…

Art Poems

COLOR Picasso had his blue period Then the rose, followed by The white, black and grey of Guernica, his ode to the horrors of war. I don’t of Picasso in terms of red, period. Red rests on every canvas in my living room above the red Turkish carpet.   Dense rich vibrant cadmium. It is blood…

Art Process

I have just completed three new mixed media canvases using old master prints with florals…My colleague has just scanned this new one called, “DaVinci Revisited”…..See it in the Interior Design Gallery

Spring and Miracles

Spring is summoned out of icy doldrums with icicle melt comes the crocus poking their heads through snow vestiges. The Buddha in my garden uncoverd sits naked in the morning sun, wondering if the chives and rosemary survived. And what of the goldfish in the pond? A new child, a spring arrival. We see her…