A Short Year-End Reflection
This past April, I bought a gratitude journal… my first ever. I bought it because I could feel myself slipping into a darker place as the pandemic rode its first […]
Park It Awhile
In these difficult times, I’m doing my best to find moments of lightness. What about you? Making art is helping. Making art that reminds me of lighter times helps even […]
Forza Italia
Watching the news coming out of Italy is heart-wrenching and surreal. If you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know that I’m deeply in love with Italy. I have painted scenes […]
How A Book Inspired A Painting
… Siena was to me as intimate as a locket you would wear around your neck and yet as complex as a maze. – Hisham Matar, “A Month In Siena” […]
Siena’s Lasting Glow
O gracious city well-beloved, Italian, and a maiden crowned, Siena, my feet are no more moved Toward thy strange-shapen mountain-bound: But my heart in me turns and moves, O lady […]
Art We Wonderful by Marion Younan 