New Work, New Exhbits, New Ideas

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The past year and a half has been a very busy time for me. I’ve participated in several invitational and juried shows and I was fortunate enough to have been awarded prizes in two of those. Pictured above is GUYS AND DOGS,  one of two paintings created for the Modern Male IV exhibit at the […]

Figure It Out

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I was honored to be invited to be a part of the current exhibition at the Patricia Rovzar Gallery in Seattle, “Figure It Out.” The show focuses on different interpretations of the figure Here’s a nice video in which all the artists , myself included, talk about their art and process. https://vimeo.com/522515352  

“Character Development” at the Attleboro Arts Museum

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I’m honored to be showing work in the upcoming invitational show, “Character Development” at the Attleboro Arts Museum. I and fifteen other artists were invited to choose a piece from the permanent collection of the museum, and then create our own artwork inspired by the piece we chose. I chose an Al Hirschfeld caricature of Groucho […]

The Next Step: Take Risks and Share

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  Opening reception at Site: Brooklyn for the show, “Animals.”   Let’s assume that you have been happily and busily creating and you have found your niche and your direction. You love what you are doing. And now you want to show your work to others besides friends and family. What’s next? Over the course of […]

Kick in the Creatives!

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    It’s been a busy year painting and doing shows. It seems I keep saying that every time I post! I have a lot of news to share about shows I’ve done, but I want to share this interview I did with the wonderful Sandra Busby and Tara Roskell who are in charge of […]

It Was the Year of the Rooster

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2017. It was the year of the Rooster according to the Chinese Calendar. It was also the beginning of a new direction for me, for that was the year I truly began to spend all of my waking hours painting. Yes, I sort of began back in 2009 when I first got my studio at […]

The Year in Review: Many Changes, Many Paintings

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In February of 2018, I last posted on this blog. It was fully my intention to be better about writing and sharing here. For many years I spent countless hours on my first blog, Cats and Jammers Studio. There I wrote about books and art and writers and movies and TV shows and just about everything. Some […]

Saying Good-bye to the Old, and Welcome to the New!

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Welcome to my new site and blog. After trying to keep up to date on 4 other blogs, covering topics on everything from movies, to books, to antique hunting, to design, to celebrity culture, to decorating, to eye glasses, to garbage, not to mention art…well…I’ve decided to just maintain one blog: this one. My fresh […]