Shop Archival Prints In our Fairfax house, the sunniest spot is the side yard – we had to walk around the house to reach it. One day just before Easter 2014, I found a single rose in full bloom and one lilac cluster—the first ever from a bush that had never...
Steve-o and Annette Lamott are, as she says, a miracle. When they first met in 1996, she had a huge crush on him. She gave him her business card, he never called. He met someone else, married and had a daughter. She carried on, raising her daughter never finding...
This lovely green glass cup – a gift from my sister(-in-law) Annie – is perched atop the fence in at the Fairfax house stuffed with roses from our garden – sprigs of lavender as punctuation. As much as the point is the flowers, the glass is the star...
Shop Archival Prints These are peonies from Trader Joes! I brought them to my folks house and sat the vase of them on a window sill in the stairwell. I hunt out striking light whereever I can. The painting came in three distinct phases. The garden in the background...
My heart started to pound when I saw these huge sheets of watercolor paper in Perry’s Art Supply. I had no idea the heavy paper I paint on came so big – sixty by forty inches! Though they were pricey, I bough all five sheets they had. On the spot. I was...
One summer day, in the midst of all my art activities, I found a moment to pick some roses and put them on the deep window sill in my Fairfax studio. It was evening, the sun starting to sink, I noticed the light streaming through the vase alongside a candle holder and...