Notes on paucity
Dear Artist, I was putting the title The Red Canoe on the back of a…
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Life-changing workshops
Dear Artist, As a young artist just starting out, I took a few workshops –…
Lester, Mary and Jack
Dear Artist, Three others hang out with me when I’m painting in our garden. Lester…
The wisdom of smalls
Dear Artist, Yesterday, Andrée M. Kuhne of Kingston, Ontario, Canada wrote, “My friends and I…
The tale of an island ‘desk’
Dear Artist, Somewhere out in Lake of the Woods — a lake with 14,000 islands…
Gratefulness
Dear Artist, Among our fellow presenters at our recent workshop at Hollyhock on Cortes Island…
Self-reliance
Dear Artist, Yesterday, Kathryn Ikeda of the San Francisco Bay Area wrote, “Recently I was…
Democracy or excellence?
Dear Artist, When our kids were small they were regularly stationwagonned over to our local…
Art that dreams are made of
Dear Artist, Readers of this letter frequently ask if I think there’s some sort of…
Petrified by rejection
Dear Artist, Yesterday, Kristen Dukat of Findlay, Ohio wrote, “I began my journey at the…