Mid-September 2022 is when I learned that Hurricane Ian would potentially hit my area in Lee County. A month after I was finally able to take a breath and reflect on the experience and events. It was a major event in our life and the lives around here. Even for me without a lot of damage; the change in perspective and paradigm is marked.
Read MoreI work hard, I mean really hard. I’m talking from sunrise until I drop at night. When I’m on the road though, I try to make it a point to stop and smell the roses, or in this case the red rocks.
Read More“Psychedelic Surfer,” which appears on this month’s cover, is a turtle that brings smiles to those who see it at shows. Moore selected the colors first before she knew what she was going to paint.
Read MoreCottonwood Art Festival in Richardson, Texas was the second in a series of four out-of-state shows. I had to work like mad to prepare an inventory while still making progress on my commissions.
Read More“Lovebirds” is pencil, watercolor, and ink. It will be hung in my dining room and a place of honor. What it means to me is a beautiful reward of love from this wonderful young man to whom I have devoted so much.
Read MoreIn February I worked on a couple of different sea life paintings. Everyone loves turtles so I started with “Psychedelic Surfing” by creating an abstract background. The bright colors were inspired by the front cover a Spring print issue of Florida Design Naples edition magazine.
Read MoreI credit Collins DuPont Design Group with many of the techniques and skills that I use in my work today. In these past 23 years they have challenged me with the most incredible projects in some of the country’s most beautiful homes.
Read More“Pantone’s 2022 Color of the Year is making history with its best reveal yet: an entirely new hue created, for the first time ever, to serve as Color of the Year. They call it Very Peri (17-3938). The brand-new blue — a vivifying violet with electric red undertones — boasts both constancy and energy, consistency and excitement.
Read MoreThe Sarasota Open Air Fine Art Show selected my turtle painting as the featured artwork for the event scheduled for February 12-13 at Phillippi Estate Park. This painting has since been sold but I am working to complete a very similar version. It is an honor to represent this or any other show.
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