Gratitude to Water

Hooded Mergansers in the Cove

"Water, whether still or in motion, has so great an attraction for the lover of nature, that the most beautiful landscape seems scarcely complete without it. There are no effects so fascinating as those produced by the reflexions in nature’s living mirror, with their delicacy of form, ever fleeting and changing, and their subtle combinations of colour.”
- Montagu Pollock - Light and Water: A Study of Reflexion and Colour in River, Lake and Sea, 1903 -

"A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature."
    Henry David Thoreau

A week of being on or near the water...during the Strength Moon cycle...

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Media Blend & Contemporary Retablo

Media Blend at Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art

"If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you", that would suffice." Meister Eckhart



My catalog blurb reads something like this...

Media Blend: Step outside the box and find new ways of seeing. Sticking with the tried and true can also be stiff and stagnant. Discover exciting combinations of materials... express... make handmade prints, stamps, stencils ... experiment with a wide variety of mediums...unsettle and surprise yourself. Each session builds on the last: experiment with ideas in deeper, more personally relevant ways and unleash an invigorating style...of your own.

Here's a sampling...

Your inspiration may be a gift...

It may arrive through a poem...

your impulse may rise up through a deeply personal story...

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Saturday in the Studio

Saturday in the Studio/Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art

Saturday in the Studio/Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art

I have an on going love affair with young artists and the positively open, spontaneous and joyful willingness that allows them to be inventors and detectives continually discovering ways to express and playfully explore.


Three semesters and a summer studio make up the yearly schedule for my program called 'Saturday in the Studio' an on-going series at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art. I developed this program a number of years ago so that young artists would have a place to come and experiment with diverse materials and ideas of their own. Here's a collection of projects simply to celebrate unstructured imagination:

Saturday in the Studio/Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art

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MY 7 LINKS: Something a Little Different

XTC#1, Drozda, Mixed/canvas, 2011

I've been away from the blogosphere for the past five weeks as my first eStudio: AHA's for the Art/Life: Tools for Change got born...a complete delight...a Luna tic labor of love.

Last week I took a week off. Now I thought it would be perfect timing to engage in an invitation from my bloggin' buddy Dora Ficher.

I'm a bit overwhelmed to have been invited to be part of the ‘My 7 Links’ project but Dora assured me that this was not a rush and so I've allowed it to sit quietly 'on the back burner ' for a number of weeks. I trust that those whose blogs I've invited will allow themselves the same lee way...and if the time or interest doesn't fit no worries.

The idea is to go back to your own posts and find one to fit each of the 7 proposed categories, then ‘choose’ 5 more bloggers to do the same, and so on, and so on.


The project is described as a way of “uniting bloggers (from all sectors) in a joint venture.

The following are the 7 categories:

Most beautiful post

Most popular post

Most controversial post

Most helpful post

Most “surprisingly successful” post

Most neglected post

and finally….the post that makes them most proud


This was a actually a great way for me to come back to my blog since AHA's for the Art/Life: 'Tools for Change' actually did change my days in unexpected ways...it was so much of a dedication and endeavor that little time remained for further writing... thus a five week gap in my weekly blog practice...so...Thank You Dora... this is the ideal occasion to make a blogging comeback '-)

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