Year End 2024

We close out the year with some great recent work by participants in collage/mixed media workshops at Building Bridges, serving the unhoused communities of Ukiah. From simply cutting out squares from magazines to engaging in picture-making mindful of color and pattern, the growth has been great - and the spirit in the room just wonderful between we the artists, the participants, and the Building Bridges staff. Thanks to my collaborators Betty Lacy, Laura Fogg, and Melissa Carr, and to our staff liaison Haley Dorner of RCS. Onward to 2025!

EARLY FALL 2024

It’s been a busy few months during which I’ve done a couple of commissions plus started volunteering with a few other artists at Building Bridges, working with unhoused shelter residents and clients to bring their stories to life. Look for some of their work on this page before the end of the year!

I also took an online workshop and started playing with some great oil painting mediums made by Natural Pigments right up 101 in Willits. The two head studies included in this group of new work make use of them.

Late Spring 2024

The way things go… I had to drop the course on 3D design because the project media (wire, cardboard, etc) were more than these arthritic hands could handle. However otherwise things are charging ahead! After a break from the easel, I returned all fired up about a reference photo of a favorite muse, Olivia, a Native American artist on indigenous lands in Michigan. That’s the one oil painting featured here. I also completed these two dog portraits I’m really pleased with.

I am now working on a paid commission for a double portrait in graphite of sweet children. I am also accepting pet portrait commissions. The funds from these will be used towards the art supplies needed for our multidisciplinary project collaborating with homeless communities of Ukiah, We Are You. We’re partnering with Building Bridges, with our first workshops taking place in July!