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<p>Have you ever noticed how someone walks, or enters into a room and you can feel their current mood, or know something is off? You are really on to something. I recently had an unsettling personal situation that was highly stressful.  This continued for a few months.  I should have expected it would show up [&hellip;]</p>

<p>&nbsp;  Finding your Muse Recharging Your Creativity Five essential steps to wake-up your creative mojo. To-do lists, work and social obligations, world distractions, you may wonder, where and how can you recharge your creative mojo. As a professional person and artist, it doesn’t come without serious intent to find and cultivate that wondrous place we [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A lot is going on on our planet right now and I crave, so deeply crave harmony.  The belief that our convictions are right and others are wrong has us so deeply divided.  Conquerors in all varieties are flaunting their prowess.  Whether it is within ourselves, our community, the larger landscape of humans or as [&hellip;]</p>

<p>&nbsp; I have missed having my studio open for visitors and participating and visiting art shows.  This past year has been quite an adjustment and I sometimes feel like Punxsutawney Phil peeking my head above the ground wondering if it is safe to come out.   I am writing this as the sun is shining outside [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Last night we had a windstorm like none I had ever been through before. I have been told that winds were gusting to 65 mph where I live.  Remarkably, our house came through it unscathed, considering we live next to a dense forest and have very tall trees in our yard. With everything that is [&hellip;]</p>

<p> I felt the need to paint even larger. I set out to buy 72&#8243; x 72&#8243; canvases.</p>

<p>I am an artist.&nbsp;&nbsp; Being an artist is filled with days of isolation, even though I am not alone in my thoughts and ideas, it can feel like a lonely world.&nbsp; Just a few years ago I moved to a totally different place, an island, away from my family and the world I knew for [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I often struggle with the expectations that an artist have a body of work that is recognizably their &#8220;signature&#8221; style.  Part of what I love about being an artist is the creativity to be unique and let myself explore and be free. The art world does not always favor this course of creativity&#8230;at least in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In reality I am a thriving,recognized artist, living her dream.  I have had plenty of acceptances, awards and applause. So don&#8217;t feel sorry for me,  today I received a &#8220;Dear John&#8221; letter.  In the art world that means a nice rejection letter for a submission to a show.  A thanks, but no-thanks.   It goes with [&hellip;]</p>

<p>&#8230;And how we see Contemporary Abstract Art BARBARA MOSHER “ Read Between the Lines”2017 &nbsp; Around the kitchen table or the neighborhood bar, a long-standing debate is often the subject of disagreement. What is the best pickle? &nbsp; The classic dill, now that alone can conjure up some arguments. Are we talking about a Vlasic [&hellip;]</p>