I’ve now spent two days writing statements about each painting that will be in my solo show in November. Each statement is a personal remembrance of what I was thinking about, or inspired by, or reacting to when I began each painting. It took many hours to write the drafts and then came the rewrites and rewrites of the rewrites. I will be using these statements in a variety of ways in written, video, and audio formats, so it was important to create something that would work well in a variety of media. Not an easy task at all but very well worth the effort.

I began this daily journal in February, 2026 as I prepared for three exhibitions. My solo exhibition, “Portraits From My Garden” at Locust Grove in Poughkeepsie, NY, on view from June 5 – September 15, 2026, and my work that was on view in the June, 2026 group show, “Raising Women’s Voices” in Chelsea, NYC.

My next solo exhibition titled “Centering in the Midst of Chaos” will be at the Ceres Gallery in Chelsea, New York City, November 3 – 28, 2026.