I've Been Featured

My artwork has been featured on two blogs this week, and I wanted to thank Terri Gordon and Pamela Bates for spreading the word about my art! Please check out their wonderful blogs: Designs by Terri Gordon, and Mercantile Muse. I really appreciate your positive words and encouragement!

The Connor Meigs Art Award

I just got some very exciting news - I've been chosen to be the recipient of The Connor Meigs Art Award! I will have a month-long solo exhibit in September 2012 at Florence Mill's ArtLoft in Omaha, Nebraska. To learn more about it, please visit http://connormeigsaward.blogspot.com/ I will post more details as the show gets closer.

The path in my dream

I had a dream that I was walking on the beach, on a brick jetty, down a gentle slope. Miles of sand stretched out on either side of me, as if the whole earth were nothing but sand and water. And the waves came up, up over the beach, rushing across my path. Everything succumbed to water, but I continued down the path, letting the water crash against me and push me down. My destination an infinite distance, seeming to move farther and farther away. But still, I walked on, keeping my eye fixed ahead, traveling out into the water toward my unknown destination.

This is a sketch from my dream. I'd like to turn this idea into a drypoint print, and also a large oil painting.

The Search

It's difficult to know where you're going all the time, especially when there's no one to point you in the right direction. I'm at one of those points in my life, a transition from the path laid out before me to the path I have yet to discover. Independence - the freedom to choose what I want to do next - is very exciting, but the possibilities are overwhelming. What do I want to do with my life? It is a daily question that I still haven't answered. And so my search continues...

A memory from childhood

We walked along
the frozen shore
barefoot,
deep inside
cold, wet sand.

We skipped along
the slippery rocks,
and watched
as ice floated
out to sea,
melting.