“Meditation on Water” (detail), acrylic, oil, Rhoplex on canvas, 48 x 24 inches My experiences at an artists’ retreat in India generated work expanding on my Sanctuary installation on view at Gallery@221, HCC, Dale Mabry Campus, in Tampa, in 2014. Sanctuary, East and West opens at Studio@620, in St. Petersburg on Saturday, May 13, 5:00-9:00pm. Artist’s talk at 5:30. Inspired by an image in a dream of a tree with fish instead of leaves on the ends of

Turkish Airlines flight into New Delhi Arriving in New Delhi Early in December, 2016, I traveled from the United States to Germany, then Switzerland and finally to India for a residency at Sanskriti Kendra, an artists’ retreat. A relative had warned me that I would experience culture shock going from Switzerland to India. He was right! After leaving baggage claim at the New Delhi airport around five in the morning, I looked for a place to

I’m off! Tomorrow I leave for five weeks, using my Creative Pinellas Individual Artist’s Grant dollars to travel to Europe and to make art at an artists’ retreat, the Sanskriti Foundation in New Delhi, India. I’m looking forward to the peace and quiet of the retreat so that I can focus, uninterrupted, on my art which will relate to Delhi’s Yamuna River. This will be an extension of my Sanctuary series, exhibited at HCC, Dale Mabry

It’s been a few months since I last posted here–my last post was brief, announcing that I was among ten artists: visual artists, a writer, a theater director and a dancer to have received a Creative Pinellas Individual Artist’s Grant. All of my blog posts since then are on the Rapid Returns Grant website. On Monday evening, October 3, several of the artists who had been awarded grants during the last Creative Pinellas Rapid Returns

Photo: Mark Wemple, Florida Trend Magazine I am very excited to be one of ten artists to be awarded a Rapid Returns Individual Artist Fellowship Award through Creative Pinellas. Today I posted my first update to my page at the Artist Fellows’ blog. One of the reasons I’m most excited about having received this award is that it enables me to travel to India, something I have always wanted to do. I will be a