WELCOME 2025!

 

Happy 2025! It is hard to believe we have almost chipped away a quarter of a century!
Does anyone remember the dramatic entrance to the new millennium, the countdown to 2000? Wow. I just realized that the year 2000 is my half-way marker - half of my life happened before and the next half after it.
Coincidentally, I also celebrated that countdown into 2000 in Austin, TX, which was the first time I visited the United States.
There are, naturally, always some new “firsts” throughout our lives - some great, some wonderful, others strange or sad or really difficult. That’s life.

Here’s my favorite 2025 image related to my art.
It is from the opening reception at ​Gallery 1871 in Chicago, with one of my large scale “Origin Aqueous” watercolors. It is one of the works I really wanted to see framed and on the wall, and thanks to the amazing support of the gallery director Jackie Pernot, that vision came to fruition.

Year after year I am astonished by the gift of being able to create art as my 100% calling, passion, and profession.
Without any sentimentality or sugarcoating - this path is both one of freedom and of daily hard work, dedication, and perseverance.

Being one’s own boss is a very interesting situation. It’s not as easy as one might think. Also, not considering other avenues, other jobs, other opportunities…not getting distracted along the way can be a real challenge.

I am grateful I get to do what I do, every single day. It’s a gift, I know it and I don’t take it lightly.

Now - on to face what lies ahead!