June 16, 2010 - April/May/June

I did our taxes in April, and started getting ready for the 40th WAOW National Juried Exhibition in San Diego.  I reframed two of the pieces for the show in museum frames, made all my hotel and car reservations, packed the three Airfloat Strongboxes for shipping, and got ready for my trip to San Diego.  What a blur..... Sorry about not blogging.  Too much going on!  I enjoyed meeting the WAOW women attending the opening at the Olaf Wieghorst Museum in El Cajon.  What a gorgeous show!  I am awed by the talent of this group of women artists.  Thanks to the Wieghorst Museum and the WAOW women who made this all possible.  I took Peggi Kroll-Roberts' advice to heart and I am following my heart.  I have 1800 photos to paint from with a renewed spirit.  The Gulf Disaster has spurred me to paint my beloved birds and wildlife before we destroy our planet and its precious cargo.  Hope you enjoy my future paintings!

June 4, 2010 Opening - showing my 3 works

March 17, 2010

The 40th Annual Women Artist of the West (WAOW) National Juried Exhibition, "WAOWing the Golden State", will be held at the Olaf Wieghorst Museum in El Cajon, California, from June 4 through June 30, 2010.  The juror, Peggi Kroll-Roberts, who works from her California studio, is a member of the California Art Club, a Signature Member of the Laguna Plein Air Painters, and a Master Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society.  Three of my paintings will be included in this show:   "Autumn Foothills", "Duck Rocks", and "Sunbathing in Fur".  This will be my first juried national show with WAOW. 

February 3, 2010

I will be participating in the Women's History Month Art Show entitled "Works of Love" at the Cultural Arts Council Fine Art Gallery in Estes Park, Colorado, from February 21 through April 4, 2010.  My watercolor and gouache landscape "Summer Cirque", one of my new landscapes,  will be shown in the gallery.  Hope you check it out!

January 19, 2010

Hope you enjoyed your holidays and time with family and friends!  I reorganized my studio the last two weeks, which I desperately needed to do, and now I am ready for the new decade.   I had a closet that wasn't being utilized for organizing the many supplies I needed to store.  Wow (or WAOW) -- what a difference!  I have new goals to achieve for 2010 and the next few years.  I am returning to where I started in 1999 ... the subjects I love and what I would like to paint for the rest of my life.  I love painting wildlife and birds, landscapes, aspen and horses.  I hope you see a new joy in my work in future shows.

November 16, 2009

Happy Holidays to all!  Enjoy the spirit of the season and family traditions, being with friends and those you love!

It's time to get creative and paint for me .... See you next year!

October 1, 2009 

I apologize for not updating my website.  September was a very busy month with the CWS New Trends Show, the PPWS Signature Member's Show, and the WAOW Online Show.   I helped hang the New Trends exhibit at the Co-Art Gallery.  That was tough with the hanging system - it was like hanging the show multiple times to position each painting on the vertical hangers!  There are only a few more days for the Signature Member show at the Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts.  The opening for the PPWS show was on Setember 11th and the opening for the CWS show was on September 18th.  I also tried plein air painting for the first time and enjoyed it.  I look forward to more painting outside in the future. 

August 4, 2009

The Colorado Watercolor Society's 2009 New Trends Show will be held in Denver at the CO-Art Gallery located at 846 Santa Fe Drive in Denver.  This show was juried by Nancy Condit (Abend Gallery) and will be held from September 18 through September 26, 2009, in the Santa Fe Arts District.  Hope you stop in to see the show. 

July 31, 2009 - Update

The WAOW Online Show is now open on the WAOW website at www.waow.org.  Two paintings on my PayPal Page are for sale from this show: "Ready to Rodeo", and "Autumn Foothills".  They can be viewed on the PayPal Page and in Associate Gallery Two at www.waow.org.

July 20, 2009

The August Southwest Art arrived today!  WaOW!  The advertisement looks beautiful!  My ad is larger than I thought it would be and the painting looks great.  Nice editorial on page 84.  Looking forward to seeing the Online Show August 1st!  

Since being juried in as an Associate Member in September of last year, I have been impressed by the caliber of artists in this organization.  I am honored to be in such company!  I greatly appreciate the hard work of these talented women in support of WAOW.  They are awesome!

July 3, 2009

Women Artists of the West (WAOW) will have an Online Show in conjunction with the August Southwest Art WAOW editorial and WAOW group advertisement.  

June 13, 2009

There was a large crowd at the Opening Reception for the 26th Annual All Colorado Art Show at the Curtis Arts & Humanities Center Saturday evening.  The show is located at 2349 East Orchard Road in Greenwood Village (off University Boulevard in Denver) and will run through July 31, 2009.  The building is a restored schoolhouse that is open Tuesday through Friday.  Call (303) 797-1779 for more information.  This show was juried by Deborah Jordy, Executive Director of the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts.

May 12, 2009

Southwest Art magazine is going to do an editorial in their August issue about Women Artists of the West (WAOW). 

There will be a group WAOW advertisement in that same issue, and I will be participating in that ad!  This is a first for me.  I have never placed an ad in a national publication.  It's exciting!  

There is a link to WWW.WAOW.ORG and my web page from the Resume Page for more information about WOMEN ARTISTS of the WEST.