2022: Begin Again

Another year of disruption and acute distress for our world in so many ways. I look to this new year for a fresh start in my own world and a return to work and themes.  

I've spent a lot of the year outside of the studio, due to family obligations...

 

...obligations I entered into voluntarily and with deep love.  We thought the remote schooling process would be over in June, at the end of the school year, 

and it was, but a resurgence of Covid meant I was needed again this school year, with a different and greater time commitment.

My passion to make sure our new old home was ready for us, was beautiful, was a true reflection of who we are, has grabbed me with tsunami-like energy and has taken most of the time I had left over from child responsibilities.

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My house and my garden (see preceding post)  were my major artworks for the year.

But in these days after Christmas, I've cleaned and reorganized my studio. It and I are ready. I have several different series going on and I don't know where I'll go with them,  

but I'll find out. I also want to make another 12' long concertina book of the second year of my garden and I wouldn't mind making more portraits of the kind I did of the original owners of our 1860s house:

I continue with my red clay painting studies:

 

I have poured every single thing I have this year into family, house, garden, and regaining of health. 

It's time to pour every single thing I have into my work. Begin again. There's no end to the beginnings.

Let us join together in a fervent wish for the health of our planet, its people, ourselves and our loved ones, and for a world in which virtue and truth are once more the standards we strive to uphold. 

Happy 2022.

Comments

[Laura Frankstone]

And you are a marvelous friend. I thank you again and again for being my longtime friend and fellow traveler on this artistic and spiritual journey. Happy new year to you. xoxo

[Kate (Cathy Johnson)]

What a lovely, human, inspiring post, dear Laura...you are a marvel!