When I began to paint and create my art, I did not know where I was headed as an artist. Yet what remained important to me was that I was beginning my calling as a painter. After I began pai…

There are very few things I can say about my work that are better than saying nothing. – Ralph Hotere I was still very young and totally naive about “art” when I first met Ralph H…

shibori on hand-woven ramie cloth, organic indigo dye, bamboo, cotton cord Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and the student are located in the same individua…

The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world; it is a self delighting other-worldly thing – a getting lost in regression and solitude; a sub-literate, semi…

I’ve never been drawn to ritual, even though my relationship with objects borders on the metaphysical. But my soul bowl, a container with an unforeseen ability to speak into my heart and elic…

I’ve never been drawn to ritual, even though my relationship with objects borders on the metaphysical. But my soul bowl, a container with an unforeseen ability to speak into my heart and elic…

As artists … we make artwork as something we have to do not knowing how it will work out. – Agnes Martin Just when I began to doubt that I would ever write again on this blog – …

getting past the words Words are wonderful when they serve as pointers. The problem is that we tend to ascribe ‘realness’ or ‘thingness’ to words, forgetting …

acrylics on textured canvas The scariest moment is always just before you start. – Stephen King

acrylic on textured canvas When I paint I am color. – Namgyal Rinpoche

What is the feel of your Love? What do you love to play with?

INCARTAMENTO: “wrapping it all up.” The story of an artist’s book.

I have wrestled with the angel and I am stained with light and I have no shame. Neither do I have guilt. My responsibility is not to the ordinary, or the timely. […] – Mary Oliver, on w…

I’ve tried many ways. I delight in “Seeing-Drawing”, the wonderful meditative practice I learned from Frederick Franck on one of his retreats and also from his classic The Zen of …

A recent online conversation with a friend brought up our observations of the way so many folk in the ‘spiritual field’ feel that it’s somehow wrong to have a passion to cr…

I’ve never been drawn to ritual, even though my relationship with objects borders on the metaphysical. But my soul bowl, a container with an unforeseen ability to speak into my heart and elic…