How to help? We all want to help someone, but do we really understand what helping another person means, and how to do that.  Teachers need help! NEED help! What kind of help?  How best to help?  They need help with things that they can’t do, with issues that are out of their control and […]

I would not have believed that I could render this painting in the way that I have. It took a life of its own, and Jenny B came alive in the scene. The assignment was to take a photograph of a window, and paint it showing both inside and outside. This photograph was taken in […]

When I began the process of really looking at the photograph to determine which colours were needed, I did not “understand” the shapes that I was seeing, where they fit and whether the colours in the photo were a result of a freak of the camera…but I decided to be slavish to what I was […]

Melting Popsicles. This attempt at painting popsicles, introduced my “melting popsicles” metaphor… the realisation that time is slipping away, while we worry about the mechanics of getting started. Whether it is writing that article, or clearing up the clutter, or making that first mark on the canvas, for some of us, the period before getting […]