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The Great Affair is a mixed media portrait that encourages adventure and travel. https://youtube.com/shorts/bFn623mXBGU I created the feature video above and was moved by a comment left on my Instagram post: So beautiful! It made me think about the way we, as artists, can travel far, all around the world even, through books and creating …
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Grace arrives for the moment, direction comes for the day, a path of peace unfolds in the present. Last summer, my husband and I took a trip to Maine. We traversed the coast with cameras in hand, capturing beauty and contemplating quality of life. During those magical days, we determined to take more trips like …
Have you ever heard the ocean calling to you through a seashell? Maybe you’ve never held a shell to your ear, but you know your gifts and talents are intended to serve someone out in the sea of humanity. If the second is so, then you’ve most definitely heard the Spirit whisper through the shell. …
Life fills with new beginnings and contemplative endings! Sunrise and Sunset visualize those seasons of life when we explore and when we settle. Sunrise and Sunset visualize those seasons of life when we explore and when we settle. Sunrise-Here’s to new beginnings, exciting adventures, and illuminated paths: Your word is a lamp to my feetAnd a …
The Great Affair honors this wonderful journey we call life. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.The great affair is to move.” Travel writer Robert Luis Stevenson’s quote graces my daughter Elya’s world map painting I used for part of the mixed media background. My children and their spouses …
Is change a decision we can control or an invitation to ride the wild, untamed? Or both? I’ve been trying to wrap my head around change—what part is God-initiated and what part is human choice. There’s something deep inside that drives me to find my true north, which inspired the acrylic painting, “Time for Change.” …
Have you every felt like a lonely traveler on a sojourn through life—always searching yet never finding what will once and for all fill that empty ache in your heart? I sure have. Oh I’ve enjoyed moments, days, and even seasons of settled; those wonderful times when God’s grace seems so real you can wrap …
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My heart bursts with joy over the recent marriage of my son, Josiah, to his exquisite fiancé, Monique. A wedding is one of those monumental events that provide an opportunity to exit the rush of living so you can celebrate life. READ THE ENTIRE POST...
Forest Adventure is my recent portrait painting in process. Lately, I’ve been on a roll with portrait painting, so I decided to use one of my photographs as the inspiration for this new painting. My daughter, Elya, painted this mask and is the model in the photo. One of the many reasons I love this photo so …
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