A NEW PARADISE (8×8/oil on canvas) by Dorsey McHugh She dreams of home. In the past, she did not even dare to believe it existed. Now, it is a real place. It expands every moment. Like a painting that is being painted by some invisible hand, her future reveals itself. And in this future […]
Conversation is at the top of my favorite things list. My Dad – and later my sister, Kit – taught me the joy and art of what a conversation is when in its best form. I love turning ideas over. I love being honest with another person. I love trusting another’s intellect and their heart
HOLD ME TIGHT – 30×24 – collage on board This week, I fell in love again. I fell in love with Life, with hope, with sons and daughters, with dear friends. I am pretty sure, I also fell hard for this new adventure, with all its components: the painful and the lovely. I am in
AND WHAT IS LOVE? 36×30 Sometimes there is no better word for life than “delicious”. This morning I have been listening to, and dancing with Buddy Holly. I listened to Brene’ Brown’s TedTalk on vulnerability before the sun was up and before finishing my first cup of coffee. I had a laugh and a conversation
A Cold Crisp Night oil on canvas (8×8) My Dad was a farmer. Our home was in the country several miles from a small town in South Dakota. There were no streetlights, only the night sky. One moonless night, as my mother and I walked the quarter mile home from our neighbors, I could hear
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Anticipation It would be more than enough to simply lie on a blanket under the night sky. More than enough to know that this wondrous light show will begin any moment. I imagine a painter using lights across the sky as His medium. I imagine He is painting the music of a giant pipe organ.
A KNOWING 8×8 oil on canvas For a long long time, you appeared only in my dreams. You had no face that I could see. You were a presence. I knew you by your spirit. By your soul. When I awoke, I would remember and long for you. You Loved me. You were teaching me what Love
CHILLIN’ #2 8×8 oil on canvas This was her first afternoon in the country alone. She was exhausted. Exhausted by the noise of her life. Exhausted by all the people she had to please. The sun was warm…under this tree though, it was cooler. Insects were flying in the air, birds were doing a lazy dance, and
This is About Romance 8×8 We live and work and carve out our days with all that we have to do. Romance is on the edges, inside the spaces where we get to rest and breathe. It is our private selves as we listen to a favorite bit of music, or read a book, or
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ALBERSON AND PAQUETTE Good morning all. Greetings from my studio in Tennessee! My sister, Robin stopped by this morning. During our time together something came up to remind us of our childhood years in South Dakota. Here is one of my funnier memories: Our family drove into the tiny town of Newell, weekly to visit
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