On Women and the Arts.  Let's start with literature: If you don't know this by now, I am an avid reader.  Mostly fiction, but I will read most anything. One of my favorite writers is Edith Wharton, with her uncanny ability to present unjustified inequality of the social classes, and of the same as regards to women in comparison to men.  I also happen to be enamored of the time period in which most of her books are set.  Having read practically everything she ever wrote, I wondered why I

I'm at a strange time in my painting life. Our house here in Denver just went under contract, so we will be here until the end of April.  Then we head to Sarasota to our new house and our new life.  It's a very exciting time, full of anticipation and yes, a few niggling worries...as with any move.  All things that can and will be worked out, but at present we are in that limbo state.  This house is basically no longer ours, and our new house isn't completed yet. As a result, I don't want to

Sometimes in the course of painting, I make choices that help the composition work in a very conscious way.  For example, using the rule of thirds.  That's just one.  There are many others.  Before I begin a painting, I think about these 'composition tools' and how I will use them.  It's a very cerebral, decisive part of the process.  However, just as often, I make choices that I am not consciously aware of.  I only see why certain paintings work AFTERWARDS.  And sometimes I am talking months