My Free Art Gallery (aka the FART Gallery) has finally been launched! It was delayed multiple times while I dealt with health issues (lupus, RA, cancer) that included a months-long stint in a nursing home. Why a Free Art Gallery? I love to see the free lending galleries from which you can take a book or leave a book. Somewhere along the line it occurred to me that the same could be done with art. I'm an art evangelist and creator. When I moved to this little coastal town I wa

Sea Turtle Triptych I love diptychs and triptychs, although I'd never completed one in a large-scale format. This is my first attempt......

Avocets Afire 16"X8" on stretched gallery-wrapped canvas. In-progress photo of a work recently accepted for the Grays Harbor Shorebird...

I found an old canvas that had a painting I'd abandoned when it just wasn't working. So I painted/gessoed over it, and had a do-over,...

[24"x20" Mixed Media Collage] Yet another that I recently finished after my nursing home hiatus. This sea turtle makes use of collage...

Octopus Cacaphony (20"x24 mixed media collage) I've been finishing projects I had started before my nursing home stay. This one uses...

Who does not love light houses? They're the stuff of lore going back to ancient times, coastal phalli protecting seamen. We have one just...

Much of my last year has been spent in ill health, at one point having to spend a few months in a care facility. It was touch and go, and...

I'm gearing up to work on my next octopus-free project: my stop-motion animation Cat Scouts movie, "Catnip Kingdom," an homage to Wes...