I just subscribed to your newsletter. Here's why. I resonate with your collages. I am astounded by your writing productivity. I deeply respect and value the creative process. I want to support your work, your art, your communication about art, your teaching and mentorship. Thank you for your devotion to the work.
We do what we can do the way it can or supposed to be done according to our needs and even our desires. I had to adapt once I got divorced and had to downsize and adjust to a new life going from housewife/stay at home mother an artist with a show every other year to working fulltime, doing minimal art, maybe a group show here and there until there were no more shows. By choice I stopped doing art but told myself I will never stop being an artist. Once I was retired and didn't have to work for anyone half my age, I began doing my art again. Still no gallery but I'm doing, creating, loving every minute of it and feeling fulfilled. I had worried if I still 'got it' after the years of not producing and found out I'm even better........better skilled, better ideas, and so in love with the work. I still got it....yes, it laid dormant in me for a long while but when nourished, it came back a thousand-fold like the desert blooming after the rains finally came.
I just subscribed to your newsletter. Here's why. I resonate with your collages. I am astounded by your writing productivity. I deeply respect and value the creative process. I want to support your work, your art, your communication about art, your teaching and mentorship. Thank you for your devotion to the work.
Thank you so much for your kind words Barbara and for your subscription. It means a lot to me. And please, keep commenting. Love hearing from you.
We do what we can do the way it can or supposed to be done according to our needs and even our desires. I had to adapt once I got divorced and had to downsize and adjust to a new life going from housewife/stay at home mother an artist with a show every other year to working fulltime, doing minimal art, maybe a group show here and there until there were no more shows. By choice I stopped doing art but told myself I will never stop being an artist. Once I was retired and didn't have to work for anyone half my age, I began doing my art again. Still no gallery but I'm doing, creating, loving every minute of it and feeling fulfilled. I had worried if I still 'got it' after the years of not producing and found out I'm even better........better skilled, better ideas, and so in love with the work. I still got it....yes, it laid dormant in me for a long while but when nourished, it came back a thousand-fold like the desert blooming after the rains finally came.
Yes Annette! "like the desert blooming after the rains finally came." we never stop being what we are.