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A View From the Easel
“I love that I can be here with my family, we can create together, and what we create can exist side by side.”
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A View From the Easel
“Being surrounded by our work feels like being surrounded by children — it brings us immense joy, but it can also make our minds restless.”
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A View From the Easel
“After teaching middle school for years, quiet still feels like a rare and precious luxury. Many ideas come to me amidst this silence.”
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A View From the Easel
“My studio, in a sense, is an escape where I can re-enter my art world and create.”
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A View From the Easel
“Fabrics are everywhere — we touch them, they clothe us, they contain histories and memories.”
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A View From the Easel
“My one true love is oil paint.”
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“The LA sunsets are always amazing colors that I love seeing next to my paintings.”
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A View From the Easel
“Rainy dreary days are good for crocheting and sunny days are good for drawing.”
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A View From the Easel
“I like to use oil paints on a reflective surface, bending the light to my will.”
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A View From the Easel
“My day begins softly.”
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A View From the Easel
“Ink is a simple material, but it’s given me everything I have in my life. It allows precision but demands surrender.”
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A View From the Easel
“These four hours every afternoon are sacred, and if anyone disturbs me, I will bite their head off as my poor family knows all too well.”