This is an addition to the “I Love Paris + Roses” vein that runs through my work. After the not-to-be-repeated emergence of Eternal, the “clock painting” in 2015, I’ve been in the dark as to what would come next. I liked the circular motif of Eternal, which brought up... 
The story behind this painting is as much about what happens when we keep painting our paintings and how our stories change, as it is about the roses. I loved the soft colors and old-fashioned-ness of the roses that my sister-in-law Annie arranged in a little box on... 
Chris and Bob are dear friends from when we were regular members of the Fairfax Community Church. And though we are dear to each other, once sharing church community was no longer part of our lives, we didn’t see each other much. So it was a lovely surprise to hear... 
Several years before painting this, I was hiking when the memory surfaced: I needed to paint that photo of myself—nearly 35, lying on a wall at my mother’s cousin Jacinta’s house in Croatia. No one remembers who took it, and I don’t remember lying down like that.... On Saturday the commissioned diptych I painted at the start of the year went home. Chris and Bob came over to see the piece for the first time and take it down south with them. Here’s the story from my portfolio gallery: Chris and Bob are dear friends from when... 