Before the Laguna Art-A-Fair, I was painting up a storm. My creative juices were flowing; I was in high gear, with what felt like endless creative energy running through my veins. I was on a roll, and I loved every minute of it. There's a high that comes with being in that kind of creative flow. One idea leads to another. Paintings start talking to each other. You wake up thinking about color and go to bed wondering what might happen on the canvas tomorrow. Everything was lea

There’s a moment in almost every painting where I think, Well… this might be the one that defeats me. It’s not dramatic (okay, sometimes it is). But it’s real. The painting gets awkward. The colors fight. The composition feels off. And suddenly the confidence I had at the beginning disappears. If you’ve ever created anything, whether art, writing, a project, or a home, you know that moment. The middle gets messy. Over time, I’ve learned not to panic when a painting “isn’t wor

Lately, I've been thinking a lot about play. Not the kind of play that fills a child's afternoon, but the kind that quietly disappears from our lives as adults. Somewhere along the way, many of us stop playing. We get busy. We become responsible. We focus on productivity, outcomes, and getting things right. Before we know it, we've traded curiosity for certainty and wonder for efficiency. I've been guilty of that myself. As I've worked on a new series of paintings for this su