2023
Thank you to all of you on the other end of this email, cheering me on! You mean so much to me-it is still so amazing that so many people like my work and I’ve met so many wonderful people on this art journey that I am glad to have in my life so thank you!
Wishing you and yours all the best this holiday season!
Happy Turkey Day!
I’m extra literary this winter! First off, I have a painting featured in the current Art Chowder magazine in an article by Tom Quinn about the history of travelers documenting their adventures in watercolors.
My piece is the one in the lower right corner-a painting of the Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica!
Trending Northwest is a fancy new Pacific Northwest featured magazine and I am lucky to have gotten a multi-page article about my work, inspiration, and upcoming adventures!
Reading the title of this article, I wonder if I should add “Creative Visionary” to my business card! Makes me sound so fancy!
Thank you to Melissa and the whole crew at TNW for the fabulous article!
Read the whole article online for free HERE! There will be even more photos!
I don’t have any more holiday shows on the calendar for the rest of the year so I would like to invite you guys to check out my online shop HERE where you can get puzzles, calendars, prints (including my painting of Sunset Hill in the dark and snow-seen below) and a selection of small nocturne paintings. You’re also welcome to make an appointment to come out to my studio to do a little shopping! I’d love to show you what I’ve been working on!
You can also find my work at the From Here store in River Park Square and at Pottery Place Plus in the same building as Auntie’s Bookstore (also an excellent place to do some shopping!).
8” x 10” painting of the Govan School House in Central WA
Inspired by a grain elevator I spotted outside of Pullman.
“All the Way Home”-prints available in my shop and at From Here. This painting will be my Christmas card this year! If I’ve sent you a card in the past and you’d like to get one this year and you’ve moved, please send me an updated address!
Safe travels if you’re traveling in the upcoming holiday week. Spokane will be there at the bottom of the road to welcome you home when you return.
Hi Everyone!
Just wanted to pop in and update you all on my various upcoming on on-going shows as well as show you a couple photos from my recent adventure to Seattle to see the Hokusai Exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum!
I’m excited to be at this show on SATURDAY ONLY at the HIVE (Emphasis added to hopefully prevent confusion!). I’ll have puzzles, Christmas cards, and calendars! I just heard back that I got waitlisted for my usual December show (Brrzaar). They had so many people apply that they could only accept 36% of the artists to the show, so if you’d like to come visit me at a show before the end of the year, this is it! However, you can always make an appointment to come out to my studio any time for a little shopping adventure! These are always very fun because I often also show my sketchbooks and works in progress if people are interested.
This show opened in October and is still running through December 9th. It’s a fabulous show in a historic building on Washington with a view directly onto the elevated train tracks.
This is one of my pieces in this show.
This and the two other night sky pieces below are all 3” x 5” paintings that I framed up and took to the Spokane Art School for their Holiday Small Works show. The Art School will also have a show (Yuletide) happening during the weekend of the my show at the Hive and is just 5 minutes away so I highly recommend visiting both shows!
I made a very fast visit over to Seattle to celebrate my and my mom’s birthday with my folks and to see the Hokusai exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum. I am a huge Hokusai fan (I have the Great Wave off of Kanagawa printed on my phone case.) and the exhibit was FABULOUS.
Silk painting of a beautiful lady at the exhibit, which contained both many works by Hokusai and by his students, contemporaries, and the people who were inspired by his work.
With the glass over the prints, taking a decent photo was hard, but here is a beautiful planter that I would very much like in blue!
Continuing the theme-this is the Kubota Garden in the south end of Seattle-a 20 acre walking garden. I enjoyed its multiple ponds, great tree shaping and many stone lanterns, but I have to admit-I think our Japanese Garden has a better fall foliage display and is much prettier (though much smaller also, I must admit).
Did have fun with the amazing curving branches of the many trees-there might be some paintings coming inspired by my trip!
I’ve been delivering calendars to customers and I just wanted to pop this flip through of it into this email because I think this is my best calendar yet! If you can’t make it to the Hive on the 4th, just reach out to me and I can get you set up! We gotta get organized for next year! :)
You can buy it on my website HERE!
Happy Fall, y’all!
Hello everyone!
I’ve had a few new people sign up for this newsletter so I wanted to pop in to update you all about upcoming things! Make sure to read all the way down to the bottom details about a free fun adventure!
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First off I have my 2024 calendar in stock in my online shop-you can buy it here and at the From Here store in River Park Square in down town Spokane starting on Thursday the 21st. I had previously said I would be taking pre-orders at the Little Spokane River Artist Studio tour on September 30th, but the rules concerning what reproductions have been clarified to me and it turns out I will not be able to do that so if you’d like a calendar please buy one through my website and we can arrange local pick up! I’ll also have them with me at 33 Artists on November 4th if you’d like to buy directly from me in person!
Here’s a video flip through of the calendar!
The Little Spokane River Artist Studio tour is happening on September 30th. I’ll be at Collista’s studio. I’ll have a bunch of new paintings with me including a special series of mini-paintings inspired by the night sky out on the Palouse. Scroll down to get a sneak peek. These little guys (3” x 5”-5”x 7”) will be a great way to get a piece of original art at a great price!
Steptoe Stars
Govan Schoolhouse Stars
I also had a great time teaching urban sketching at the Northwest Museum and Culture recently. We painted the white mansion at the end of the block. Thanks to all of my lovely students!
If you would like to take a class with me, check out my events page for upcoming classes!
Finally the thing you scrolled down all the way to the bottom for! All of you are invited to come sketch in Riverfront Park with me on Saturday the 23rd 4-5:30. We’ll meet at the Rotary Fountain. There won’t be any instruction, nor supplies provided but I thought it would be fun to gather as a last hurrah of the plein air season! Hope to see you there!
It’s been a busy summer here-so I’m squeaking this in under the wire for the month! I’ve got a couple secret projects I’m working on that I have to keep under my hat, but here are some paintings that I can share that I’ve finished recently.
I’ve been working on a series of paintings all about the joy of getting in a canoe or kayak on the amazing lakes in the area.
Send me all your lake recs-small and big! I don’t have a kayak of my own, but I’ll figure out a way to get on the water.
This painting has been on my to do list for a long time. The way the light hit this hill on my way back from Pullman to Spokane really caught my eye!
This painting was inspired by a photo taken by a delightful art patron of mine-the view down Riverside!
I’m really thrilled with this painting-its going to be my Christmas card for this year. If you commission a painting from me or buy a large original work, you also get a Christmas card from me for that year. Just sayin’! :)
And if you need an opportunity to buy some of my art-I’ll be at the Little Spokane River Artist Studio tour at Collista’s studio (the furthest north). I’ll have all original work only, but I will be taking pre-orders for my 2024 calendar with a sample that you can flip through.
This painting is hanging at Terra Blanca Winery for this month as part of the preview show for the Little Spokane River Artist Studio tour. Stop on by if you want to get an idea of what kind of art will be at the show!
So I just finished my Painting Watercolor Flowers class at the Spokane Art School and it was great! If you’d like to take classes with me for the fall, check out my events page-HERE. My last plein air class of the year is in Browne’s Addition on the 9th of September-we’ll be sketching the historic houses near the NW Museum of Art and Culture. I’ll have a Paint & Sip with them in October and I have two classes coming up at the Corbin Art Center, both new classes and something a little different from my usual-I hope you’ll join me in drawing and painting a “favorite spot” or making an accordion book of Spokane landmarks. See you out there!
