A new year and trying to make sense of the past year while remaining hopeful for the new. I made a promise to myself early…
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Learn to Paint Color Bridges
A free session with artist and creator of Color Bridges–calligraphic abstracts that serve as visual prayers for your encouragement. The session will be broadcast from…
How does inspiration come to artists?
I wanted to write a post reflecting upon conversations in the past year or so with other artists. Many assume that artists are all visually…
God is the original artist
I grew up in Kane’ohe, Hawai’i where the majestic Ko’olau mountains were literally outside my door. I would wake and look at the peaks to…
Straddling Worlds
Many of you know I work in a variety of media, but watercolor is my passion. There is nothing else like it that responds so…
Color Bridges
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…
TLR Total Life Recovery
Turning Stories into Life Changing Lessons The Total Life Recovery Program (TLR) at the only Women’s Community Correctional Center in Hawaii is a faith-based, gender…
Bezalel-Finding our artistic heritage
I’ve written before about searching for my artistic heritage in a cross-generational, cross-cultural personal history and how recently I’ve come to see Bezalel as my…