Weekly Wrap-Up: This week in the studio began with a forced pause — four days under the weather meant trading the easel for the recliner. But rest has a way of feeding the creative mind, and scrolling through past art and garden photos brought both comfort and inspiration, including a rediscovered video from last year’s Women’s History Month. By week’s end, I was back in front of the dahlia painting, defining petals and leaning into the flower’s spiky, assertive character — a quality that felt exactly right to accentuate. Between studio sessions, the garden offered its own quiet rewards: the brash pink Rhododendron ‘Milestone’ cracking open for the season, lemon yellow Mahonia bealei in bloom, and a stunning Anemone mistral already making me think about the next painting. I also took a closer look at studio organization — the plastic storage bins that keep everything from framing hardware to watercolor supplies within easy reach, and the flowerpots filled with aquarium gravel that keep my brushes standing at attention, garden-style.

These daily studio notes lead toward my 2026 solo exhibitions in New York City and  Poughkeepsie, NY.