

Twelve Challenges: A Creative Response to Chaos
“Chaos” is defined as: complete disorder and confusion. Covid-19 created disorder and confusion world-wide. How do creative people react...
Sep 13, 2021


Art in the Time of the Pandemic
Yesterday, I visited the Blue Line Arts Gallery in Roseville. https://www.bluelinearts.org 405 Vernon Street, Roseville, CA 95678 (916)...
Nov 26, 2020


Crafting Sustainability
It’s obvious, if we want to pass on a world that’s worth living in, every small effort towards sustainability helps. In this post, I’m...
Sep 22, 2020


Inspired by Current Questions
In previous blog posts I wrote about various areas of inspiration: 1 Inspired by Nature 2 Inspired by Kandinsky and Geometry 3 Inspired...
Sep 2, 2020


Inspired by Fractals
I’m not a mathematician, but I find certain concepts do inspire my work, for example, fractals. Many of the following quotes are from the...
Jul 23, 2020


Inspired by Kandinsky and Geometry
Geometry was always my favorite subject at school. Euclidian geometry is concerned with abstract perfection: circle, square, triangle,...
Jul 22, 2020


Inspired by Nature
Having to spend time at home due to the current virus means that I spent a lot more time in our garden. I noticed again how much nature...
Jul 19, 2020


How to Gallery-Wrap a Textile Painting
Do you like this professional look of gallery-wrapping your textile art onto wooden stretchers? - If yes, read on. 1) Assemble your...
Mar 1, 2020


Part of 25 Million Stitches
A couple of days ago, I visited the Verge Center for the Arts in Sacramento (https://www.vergeart.com/) and came across the “25 Million...
Jan 26, 2020


Doing it Twice
Two years ago, I visited Mesa in Arizona for the first time. The dessert skies and landscapes have so much color and variety. They...
Nov 16, 2019