The imposed isolation from the pandemic lead to my discovery of a cache of family photos. Remembering the women in my life who have passed: my grandmother, my mother, her sister, and my sister, the images exposed feelings of grief and glimpses into lives well lived....
I am Japanese, but after I studied Art in Japan, went to Grad School in NY, live in the U.S.A. and speak English every day. Banana is me. It’s Yellow outside, white inside (Speak English). I was born in Hiroshima, Japan. This year August 6th was 75th memorial....
Pat Dolan, Sharon Brady, and I have been enjoying a COVID-19 project since March 22, 2020. Each day one of us sends a poem to the group. We paint a picture using the poem as a prompt. We text the pictures to each other. The paintings include themes of protecting the...
As an artist living alone in mid-March 2020, art allowed me to quiet my fear enough to sleep at night. Without a typical work schedule requiring me to leave the house to guide my hours, I found myself waking up and pacing in my bedroom at random intervals throughout...
I am primarily an oil painter who loves to explore in the human face the mysteries of expressions. However, for self-expression I turn to mixed media. This is where I lose all rules and simply do what I please, sometimes just doing what I call “streaming...
