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A Recent Spirit Painting: Transformation, Endurance and Faith

Spirit Painting for Anna/ 2012 While creating this one, I felt new beginnings, prayers answered and harmony with nature, even through tests of endurance. Butterflies somehow make it, some traveling for miles and miles though they are so delicate. I … Continue reading

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Horse Intuition and Creative Visualization

One of my sketches of a girl’s riding lesson/2008 We are so visual, seeing what has not yet unfolded is more possible, I think, than we realize.  Some of what unfolds is in our own hands, probably much of what … Continue reading

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Cafe Jonah and the Magical Attic This Tuesday

Cafe Jonah and the Magical Attic in Buckhead I’m so happy that I’ll be a guest author and intuitive reader at Cafe Jonah and the Magical Attic in Atlanta this Tuesday. Everything about it seems charming and desirable, especially the … Continue reading

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When One Dream Crashes, On to the Next!

From a picture book I wrote and illustrated, A BLUE RIBBON FOR SUGAR In this scene from A BLUE RIBBON FOR SUGAR, Bonnie has out grown her plastic horse on springs, and it breaks down underneath her.  Her dreams of … Continue reading

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Horse Power Your Dreams for 2012

A recent painting/2012 It’s the Year of the Dragon, which sounds so mythical to me.  I think of St. George and the Dragon, and how St. George slays the evil dragon while on horseback, with a sword.  Horses seem to … Continue reading

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The Animal in You: Which Animal(s) Do You Relate To Most?

LEOPARD DANCE A charcoal and watercolor drawing I did in the mid-1980′s In junior high school era of my life, I used to collect owls; I wanted to be wise.  I always longed for and related to horses, and am … Continue reading

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Barrel Racing Along

From my picture book A BLUE RIBBON FOR SUGAR Developing our dreams (mine still is to be a cowgirl again, as I was born and raised to be on our ponies in Texas until about the age of 10) through … Continue reading

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Cowboy Boots for Jane Smiley

I drew my own cowboy boots for this illustration from THE GEORGES AND THE JEWELS by Jane Smiley When I was asked to do illustrations for books written by Jane Smiley, I felt a kind of grace come to me … Continue reading

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The War Horse Sketches

My sketches of Joey the horse and the puppeteers We took our children to see The War Horse, a play based on a novel by Michael Morspurgo at Lincoln Center/ Vivian Beaumont Theater.  It was majestic and heart wrenching. I … Continue reading

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A Work Horse Should Be A Play Horse

This is a detail from a recent Spirit Painting Horses are naturally noble and create a feeling of personal grandeur for the mounted rider. They are also extremely sensitive to the slightest movements of the rider (leg pressure, reign squeeze, … Continue reading

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