I joined a group of painters in the Piedmont region of Italy this June, to explore its beauty through paint. Each day was magical - painting plein air at a villa or palazzo or garden. All arranged by the fantastic Julio Panisello of Roofless Painters. Retreating to...

"Women - Life - Freedom"  - the  slogan chanted in Iran in September 2022 over the killing of 22 year old Masha Amini by Iran's military police for improperly wearing her head covering - has not only charged the Iranian public to challenge their government but has...

I had three young women, all recent high school graduates, visit me one weekend just after the Supreme Court ruled on the Dobbs case - effectively reducing womens' rights in many states across the nation. All three were heading to different parts of our country to...

Provence on bicycle. What a way to start traveling again - and luckily scheduled during Ojai’s heat wave of September.  No paints or easel, but a sketchbook was packed along with cycling gloves and sunglasses for a six day road tour on bike through one of France’s...

Where have all the landlines gone?  Really, it's only been about fifteen years that cell phones have become ubiquitous  - and how quickly we've lost all the character and personalities of the telephone. I started a painting series on old phones (oil on board or...