What a year! It has been a roller coaster of emotions, and flexing the flexibility string in our character and moxy. I am thankful and blessed to have reunited with my love and partner, Anders. I am thankful and blessed that my bubble – my family unit has also not tested positive for COVD19 and await the vaccine. I’m just listing options in case you want to support me or other local artists during this time by purchasing experiences orRead More
The Hawai’i Watercolor Society Members Juried show opened on March 2020 and was supposed to be held at the space Arts at Marks Garage. Due to COVD19 it was held online instead and can be viewed online at the HWS website. It will remain online until the next shows come up, The Little Picture show which for now, is planned to be hung at Marks and the upcoming Open Juried Show Transparency in Translation a collaboration between the Glass FusionRead More
Teaching besides making art myself and with others is my newfound passion. I was reluctant for many years to teach because I didn’t want to be ‘that’ teacher who crushed instead of helped my creative self confidence soar. Teachers have so much power, especially to kids and those traumas are carried all the way to our graves if we don’t recognize and nurse and parent our inner Artist Child back to trust and joy. I also hate being told whatRead More
I got some positive feedback when I got to present my Color Bridges at the Community Main Stage at last year’s Honolulu Biennial and it gave me encouragement to continue to follow my instincts on not only creating them but also sharing them both as finished works of art and as a method to learn to use color. Color Bridges are my calligraphic abstracts I paint using harmonic color to express a prayer to the beholder. There is joy inRead More
The Honolulu Biennial closed March 8-May 5 2019 with the theme To Make Wrong / Right / Now and I was very happy to be a part of it, both as a volunteer bearing a pohaku in Bernice Akamine’s opening installation piece at Aliʻiōlani Hale, to being a docent and to being a speaker in the public programming on Wahi Pana and my Color Bridges series. At one of my favorite installations at the YWCA, at the entrance to theRead More
Shadow Artists
Shadow artists as described by Julia Cameron, author of The Artist Way, are those who are artists but won’t acknowledge it and thus, just like water, find other ways to direct their creative instincts. Some become shadow artists, hanging around the edges of ‘real’ artists’ lives and patronizing cultural institutions, financially supporting a struggling talent, or in some cases, becoming vicious ravagers of fledgling artists. As an artist, I’ve met all the variants of the Shadow Artist, and each timeRead More