Vive le France

Wow; guess I haven’t updated this in a while! A few open studios have come and gone, and the highlight of my year in 2024 was spending all of November at Chateau d’ Orquevaux in the French pastoral countryside. It was quite a dreamy residency, filled with long studio days, talking with other artists at breakfast , lunch, and dinner, long walks and runs, and….

Wow— I worked 3x as fast as I do here! It’s amazing what I can accomplish on a 9 hour time difference from everyone who might interrupt me and with other people taking care of all my meals! We had figure drawing sessions, art business workshops, and a couple of field trips.

I’m dreading Project 2025, but on the micro-level, the personal and art front, I’m hoping for a good year. Can we do both?

The view outside my studio window