you are invited to a solo opening...

ben folds five plays loud.

often times it's the same rythm for me in the studio... i get down to the wire--- often times im so tired my mind won't create any thing new. but then there are days when i'm so inspired i feel like i'm dreaming. if you knocked on the door to my studio today, i would not answer. i am settled in with my inspirations, and i'm not moving. music... can i paint without music?...I found out the other day one of my paintings sold to a person that hung it beside a Joan Miro piece in their private home. It humbled me because Joan Miro was one of the modern master painters I studied when I was giving in to becoming a painter.

on my website i have a quote from him---"consider the silence of a painting. But in its silence, there is a choreographed pantomime, a ballet, voice and form." (Joan Miro).

Im reminded today that my inspirations are great and many- within the silence of my paintings there is hours of music that backs my work... some days it does feel very choreographed.

Long day today--

15 paintings in the studio...there's hardly enough room for me anymore.

studio bound with a bag full of books...

well i've got a few new and old books that have beckoned me back to the studio today-- totally inspired by the "Deep South" by Sally Mann--- an amazing book that captures the landscape photographs of Sally Mann produced through Collodion process. Her painterly images are yes of the south, but speak on such a broad level of viewing.

and secondly-- Christian Liagre's book requires my countless attention-- as it illustrates Liagre's purposeful attention to detail with the utmost intentional approach to interior design...I am always left with a new set of paintings lingering in my head-