I had three days vacation from work and decided to get out of the city and head to Banff for a few days of relaxation and painting. It turned out a bit differently than I expected….

Coming back to my blog as an artistic Jewish woman…. seriously I really need to do this on a more regular basis, not just when my soul is churning and peace is hard to find.

Speaking as a middle-aged woman, and seeing the world through her eyes, I think there is good chance I see some things that younger people might not….

I had been thinking for months now about how to bring the various parts of myself into a more truthful whole. …

A good friend told me recently that I need to write my father’s story. His Holocaust story. Yet for so long there would have been nothing to write about….

This year, so far, has been one of great transitions for me. It’s been exciting and frustrating, great and awful.

It’s almost June and in review of this year’s art progress I am decidedly not as happy as last year. I should say, happy about different things….

Was rereading this blog from 2014 about Dad earlier today (it’s posted below), something I had written when he moved into the seniors home on the west coast and I had moved out there as well. And again, so much has changed….

March has been a wonderful month for creativity and new challenges! I love when I try something new and it actually works!…

February has been a crazy month. I’m glad at least that it is the shortest one. It started out really well with my art and a new abstract that I had worked on…

The New Year has started off really well in my art world. I’ve completed two new paintings this month - paintings that I really love and am happy with.

Every once in a while a painting tells me I’ve reached an important place. That’s what this latest abstract did for me.

Ever notice how some things can completely absorb your thoughts? And, yet at other times you just spend time trying to push it all away…

As the world slowly opens up, so too does my artistic inspiration and the flurry of work in my studio.

I had a conversation with another artist the other day, and I realized so many of us are wrestling with the same things.