My solo show at Sebastopol Center for the Arts opened on August 7, and since then I've worked in my studio exactly zero (0) days. I'm very good at focusing on work, on a work goal. I can paint for hours and days and even when I'm doing other things, like picking up kids or cooking or going for a run, I'm mulling the project over in my head. In fact those undirected times can be particularly fertile, for problem solving, or ideas that bubble up unexpectedly. But order falls by

Ward, oil on linen, 40" x 48" You've got to start somewhere, right? Now is as good a time as any. My solo show "conceal / reveal" opened last Friday in Gallery III, at Sebastopol Center for the Arts. I managed to get ten pieces together, at the expense of my studio, which is barely traversable. Partly because of a new process I'm working with, which requires some minor carpentry. Dear God I hate carpentry, and I'm really, really bad at it. I know screaming at your materials i