Seaside Cottages

18x24 Oil on Linen

Every summer for the past 12 years, I have visited St. Augustine Beach. I am enamored by the homes that line a particular section of the beach and always daydream about owning one of them. I imagine having a sweet studio on the ground level, with living quarters upstairs. There would be an elevator from the first to the second floor, just in case I’m ever incapable of using the stairs. The studio would be open to the public, whenever I wasn’t walking the beach and I would offer an array of cookies and coffee to all of the interesting art lovers I would meet...

September has been an enormously inspiring month. It started off with three original painting sales to a lovely new collector in North Carolina. Then I received notification that my applications to a local art show and Women Painters of the Southeast Blog were accepted. The highlight was attending a wonderful five-day painting workshop with Brian Davis at the Corse Gallery in Jacksonville and meeting twelve delightful new artists. Now I am in the process of completing two 30"x30" commissioned paintings for a friend’s living room, while framing and labeling artwork for the upcoming show in November. Sometimes dreams really do come true~