I was starting to think it might not happen again. Cool weather. Lovely. And along with it, cotton modules in beautiful rows reflecting the lines of horizon, tree lines, roads, fields. I posted on the facebook “fan” page photos of all of the above from my drive to teach a workshop in the Delta. The [...]
Dear My Art Friends, Happy Hot June. Wall unit AC working hard and it’s not yet 8 in the morning. Condensation obscuring the jungle that’s growing out there through the window and very happy birds enjoying the day before it gets too hot. Summer. “Heat Index” of 110 yesterday. I did NOT paint outside. The [...]
The idea of creating some limited edition, quality prints to sell has been bumping around in my head for some time. Folks have asked for the same paintings many times and I like the idea of offering my work at a more affordable price. However, it is really important that the work have a true [...]
It’s May 2010. My niece who was born just before my return to Mississippi is about to turn twelve. My son is now four and lovely and funny and kind. It was a long dark rainy winter but now it is Spring. Thank God. I saw a bush full of peonies in north Mississippi this [...]
About time I updated this site, don’t you think? I got a call yesterday from a gallery owner saying the money she’d tried to send me for a painting sold had been returned because my studio address was wrong. Where am I? Here I am. I’m sitting at the kitchen table of a little trailer [...]
Thanksgiving. Thursday morning we awoke to the sweet sounds of a nearly-three-year-old boy asking for milk. I asked Sender if he’d stay in bed and practice his whisper voice until our hosts rose, so we watched the sunrise out Hannah’s bedroom window. When the sun creeping over the fields lit up the yard so it [...]
I am filled with hope for our future. Alexander will have his first clear political memories of leadership of Barak Obama. A black man in appearance, of African and Caucasian heritage, raised in the Midwest, in Hawaii, in Asia. A man who plays basketball for two hours the day before he’s elected to rule this [...]
I’ve been doing a little traveling, pondering, communing, and of course painting. Three days in New York, nine on my mother’s land in the tidewater area of Virginia, five of those with Alexander and Denise. We’re leaving on a jet plane tomorrow and heading back to Mississippi to get a taste of the 100-plus temps. [...]
I spent the day in the delta on friends’ land. The friends whose clothesline and cotton fields I’ve painted over and over the last several years. Here is the note I left my friends when I packed up my paints: Today’s Tally: One snake, eight or ten big turtles on log in pond, one baby [...]
It’s a cold damp day in the Pacific Northwest. Denise is in a training here in Olympia, Washington, and Alexander is having his first nap of the day in this little cozy room at the lovely Fertile Ground bed and breakfast.) We drove in to Olympia Tuesday night after several days in Portland with friends and [...]
