This painting continues the “I Love Paris + Roses” thread in my work. What would follow Eternal? I’d like to paint anotther with a circle. What about rose windows? The flame-like design of the one in Sainte-Chapelle, the radiant jewel box of a chapel tucked...
shop archival prints A sweet quiet rose. Another from the Russian River Rose Company where the Sherose roses grew. A faithful piece that waited for me. I painted this one, very intermittently, on low-energy evenings, after finishing a painting, and even on my towel...
This is an addition to the “I Love Paris + Roses” vein that runs through my work. After the not-to-be-repeated emergence of Eternal, the “clock painting” in 2015, I’ve been in the dark as to what would come next. I liked the circular motif of Eternal, which brought up...
The story behind this painting is as much about what happens when we keep painting our paintings and how our stories change, as it is about the roses. I loved the soft colors and old-fashioned-ness of the roses that my sister-in-law Annie arranged in a little box on...
Chris and Bob are dear friends from when we were regular members of the Fairfax Community Church. And though we are dear to each other, once sharing church community was no longer part of our lives, we didn’t see each other much. So it was a lovely surprise to hear...