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After spending the past nine months focused on botanical art, especially my beloved poppies, I've felt things shift this fall. So I am em...

It is so much fun to see the likes and comments piling up on social media! It's an instant pleasure shot to the brain, but I often catch ...

These days, every Home Goods and Target store is loaded with cheap reproductions of art on canvas. Why spend the extra money on original ...

I get asked this question all the time. What led me to paint so many poppies, in so many colors, in so many different ways? Well, I love ...

Have you ever wondered how people get started with an art career? It was a bit of a mystery to me until I started following a path toward...

I'm sitting on my screen porch as I write this, with our rescue dog Daisy lounging beside me. It's going to be a hot July day in southeas...

Some would say that art is expression. It's a way of sharing how we see the world, an extension of self expression. Others would say that...

Sometimes, giving ourselves permission to paint an abstract piece can bring release! Today I decided to make a mess on a canvas, turned u...

"Do you know why birds sing just before dawn? Scientists believe it's to tell their mates they made it through the night, as a way of say...

Living a creative life can be intimidating, a path wrought with self doubt and fear. So one of my core values has become courage. Courage...

Sometimes a painting takes me on a journey, and this was one of those. I approached this canvas with a desire to stay open and see where ...

The other day I had the privilege of hearing Elizabeth Gilbert speak at the Lehigh Valley Women's Summit. She is one of my favorite autho...

This painting has been accepted to "The Art of Storytelling" exhibition at the Banana Factory in Bethlehem, PA. I created it in 2018, and...

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver I first heard this quote about nine years ago. ...

Twenty years ago I was a struggling art student, putting myself through college, and I finally changed my major to business so I could ge...

There are not a lot of voices in society that remind women to stand up for themselves.

These deep purple poppies would feel like velvet in the palm of your hand. The canvas is dripping with sunlight like a warm day in May.

Friends have been remarking on how incredibly detailed the birds are in my new mini canvases. They really are so sweet, and I love the ex...

Close ups of flowers are so sensual to me. Their literal purpose is reproduction, all of that temporal beauty with the sole aim of contin...