This past autumn, I had the honor of being asked, by one of my long ago wedding clients, to create a new piece of art to celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary. I was asked to make it the same size as the original one, follow roughly the same layout with an arch of lettering at [...]
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In small ways we can change the world, and I believe Small Business Saturday is one of those small ways. It makes us think about our neighbors and friends who offer services, who are makers and creatives, who are the small businesses still thriving in our midst, despite decades of watching the big companies get [...]
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I am so honored and pleased to again have my artwork appear on the cover of Presence, the journal of Spiritual Directors International. This quarterly magazine uses a very pleasing color scheme and subtle layout effect that attractively complement this piece. The Earth is Happy was a very early paste paper painting made in 2001, [...]
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As we enter into the dark half of the year in the northern hemisphere, the night sky takes on extra luminosity and mystery. The vast cosmos whirls overhead as we contemplate our small place in the great universe. Here at the autumn equinox, we contemplate the balance of light and dark, in the length of [...]
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An illumination of one of my favorite turns of the wheel, Yuletide, here at the darkest time of the year, when the light shines most brightly deep inside us as hope and faith. This image needed its own prose, and the best words were my own, and after infinite crafting and tweaking, I mustered this [...]
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Magic is woven throughout the entire experience of Revels, but this year it manifested in the mythic form of Merlin, for California Revels visits the court of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere in the great hall at Camelot. Merlin (as performed by Kim Silverman) enchanted on the stage, and after the show, in the lobby, [...]
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I’m making the last remaining Mandala Prayer Wheels available to readers of this journal or followers of Prose and Letters on Facebook, and they will be at Kaleid Gallery for the rest of December. These are made from my Five Sacred Elements card and my Wheel of the Year card, mounted on black-core board and [...]
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Yesterday’s Book Arts Jam at Foothill College was an exhilarating, exciting experience, even exhausting. For artists who by nature and necessity create in isolation, participating in a show like this is an incredible energy bolt. A passing student photographer offered to take this one with my own camera, so even I can see how lit [...]
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I was a teenager when I first read Leaves of Grass, probably when I was also discovering Thoreau and the transcendentalists in a high school English class. “Song of Myself” captured my attention as it has for so many others, with a voice distinctly pure and joyous. That’s Walt Whitman, and he tapped into the [...]
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I’ve been fortunate to put the basics of what I’ve learned about calligraphy and illumination over the years into a series of books produced by Walter Foster, a publishing company of art instruction books for over eighty years. In 2006 they commissioned me to produce an introductory guide to calligraphy and illumination, presenting a variety [...]
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