The Art of Dining

Artists create with all forms and various mediums. I particularly am fond of chefs who create magnificent and delectable dishes. Here imagination is paramount, along with fine sensitivity to pairing the many flavors to send your taste buds soaring. The key ingredient to create that superb dish is having the freshest and highest quality foods. North American Import & Export Company has this goal in mind when providing for the premier American restaurant. They have a promo that gives you the opportunity to dine on your favorite dishes on them.

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Here's a chance to visit your favorite culinary artist and feast on their mastery in the kitchen.

Getting Past the Creative Block

Today, I watched TED talks, featuring Elizabeth Gilbert — author of Eat Pray Love. She had a great take & talk on the creative muse. It made gave me great inspiration to keep creating my art. I've fallen pray to the "creative block" and during those times, I've wondered how to break free. Elizabeth provided an interesting take on where these "divine glimpses" originate and how to create relationship with my muse. Curiously, I have had personal conversations with my muse and yet what she relayed with her talk gave me new insight into working with my muse. I've often heard the messages of creativity urge me to paint, write or draw. Sometimes I listen and sometimes I'm so committed to my creative block that the messages come in as faint whispers walking through a busy work day in downtown San Francisco. I can hardly differentiate the voices coming from every direction and too focused to notice that the faint whisper is a big bus readying itself for a head-on collision with me. Somehow, I manage myself to miss the collision and left with my so called "creative block". These days I keep myself focused on painting and creating — regardless of how I feel. As Elizabeth Gilbert explains, I keep myself occupied with my talent and allow for my muse to flow through in partnership as the painting presents itself. Each time, I am amazed at the finished masterpiece.

Watch the video for yourself and tell me how you interact with your muse?

Nest Art Show Interviews

Here is a video snippet of me from the Nest Show Interviews, aired on McMinnville's local television network - MCM Channel 11. The air times are listed below. Video for The Nest Project was provided by Meadowlake Studios, who create shows throughout the Yamhill Valley exposing the art community to the public.

Cultural Encounter: The Nest Project Part 2
Tuesday, 04-07-2009 8:30 PM
Monday, 04-13-2009 3:00 PM
Thursday, 04-16-2009 11:30 PM

To view the entire 30 minute video (videos loaded into 3 parts), visit here.

Da Vinci Exhibit

Visited the OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science & Industry) in Portland yesterday to experience the Da Vinci Exhibit. What a great exhibit! Da Vinci was an incredibly talented man. Imagine creating your own written language written backwards. You can see reproductions of his notebooks containing his language and many poster-sized sketches, drawings, notes at the OMSI.

Arts Resource Opens

The weekend show was a fantastic experience. The town of Carlton was welcoming to everyone attending, especially friends visiting from out-of-town like Portland and Vancouver. What a memorable day! I loved broadcasting live. That gave me an opportunity to share the gallery with my friends & family from out-of-state - California, Nevada and the East Coast. You can watch the recordings at ustream.tv/channel/arts-resource-gallery.

"Changes" Art Show - Painted translations of the I'Ching

Visual translations of the I’Ching Book of Changes. Come to the grand opening of Arts Resource Gallery in Downtown Carlton. Yamhill Valley Arts is embarking on its first sponsored gallery adventure featuring the art show “Changes”. Come visit the gallery on Main Street and feast on the beautiful artwork ⎯ earlier works like “Peace” and several new works like “Joy”, “Abundance” & “Graceful”.

The I’Ching are trigrams represented by 64 possible hexagrams of 6 lines. Study of the I’Ching helps one to understand awareness & one’s state of consciousness assisting in decision-making and action for change.


Grand opening 12 p.m. ⎯ 6 p.m.

Arts Resource Gallery
223 Main Street
Carlton, OR 97111

Hip Chicks Do Wine (and Art)

On Friday, September 5, 2008, I will be the featured artist at Hip Chicks Do Wine's Newberg Tasting Room as part of the Newberg First Friday Artwalk. Visit Hip Chicks Do Wine at their website for directions: http://hipchicksdowine.com/about/directions.php.

"Chaotic Passion" was selected as the cover art for the First Friday Artwalk publication. That is exciting news, especially since it was a wonderful surprise for me coming back from Ireland in August. I had no idea I was chosen until the I arrived at Hip Chicks.