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Inspiration

Stories have always inspired me. Perhaps because I was raised with them, in one art form or another… When I was a young girl, our family often took Sunday drives through the country-side, with the hoped-for goal of buying ice cream cones. A favorite trip was to a small college town twenty miles due west [...]

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My best people paintings come from photos that suggest a story to me. Nothing spectacular. Usually not posed, and with no special lighting. Even photos taken on a grey day with little color can tell a story so poignant it begs to be painted. I found such a photo two years ago among my daughter’s [...]

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