Art Blog

A Caribbean Art Studio with a bright painting on an easel and windows open looking over the blue ocean water

I Paint. I Make Art. I Am an Artist.

I paint. I make art. I am an artist. They sound like the same sentence, but it took me until almost 50 to say the last one out loud without...

I Paint. I Make Art. I Am an Artist.

I paint. I make art. I am an artist. They sound like the same sentence, but it took me until almost 50 to say the last one out loud without...

Small pink primitivo bananas

What Is a Primitivo Banana?

Short, chunky and sweeter than regular bananas. What primitivo bananas are, what they taste like, where to find them in Bocas, and why I painted them.

What Is a Primitivo Banana?

Short, chunky and sweeter than regular bananas. What primitivo bananas are, what they taste like, where to find them in Bocas, and why I painted them.

Brightly painted lobsters packed for sale

Why One Eye?

Where my one-eyed Cyclops creatures came from, starting with a grade school surrealism lesson and a painting I gave my son almost ten years ago.

Why One Eye?

Where my one-eyed Cyclops creatures came from, starting with a grade school surrealism lesson and a painting I gave my son almost ten years ago.

Hummingbirds with flowers pillowcase

Life in Bocas del Toro: Insider’s Guide

What it is really like to live in Bocas del Toro, Panama. Where to stay, what to do, what to eat and what to know before you go, from a...

Life in Bocas del Toro: Insider’s Guide

What it is really like to live in Bocas del Toro, Panama. Where to stay, what to do, what to eat and what to know before you go, from a...

A brightly painted lionfish

Art Therapy

Menopause, chaos and a paintbrush. How painting became my art therapy in Bocas del Toro, and why contentment is a practice, not a finish line.

Art Therapy

Menopause, chaos and a paintbrush. How painting became my art therapy in Bocas del Toro, and why contentment is a practice, not a finish line.

Four Starfish painted on the sand, under shallow water

Here is to Another Year of Absurdity

My first full year as an artist is done. Why letting go of being the calm, serious one from the software world made me a happier painter.

Here is to Another Year of Absurdity

My first full year as an artist is done. Why letting go of being the calm, serious one from the software world made me a happier painter.