10/08/2026
I'm turning fifty next May.
And one of the things I've been thinking about lately is how much I'm still learning about being an artist.
I've spent decades painting, illustrating, experimenting with materials, and building a creative career. You'd think by now I'd have everything figured out. Pft. Not even close.
Just this week, I started exploring how a long-diagnosed issue with my vision might be affecting the way I perceive values in my paintings. It's something I never really connected to my artistic process before, and now I'm looking at some of my techniques in an entirely different way.
That's part of what I want Creatives Cove, the new members' area at Submerged Studio, to be about.
I'm not opening the doors to an enormous, finished library of tutorials and articles. I'm building this space as I go, and I'd like to bring you along. There will be experiments, works in progress, discussions about materials and techniques, behind-the-scenes glimpses of projects, and probably a few spectacularly unsuccessful ideas along the way.
I want to share what it's like to be an artist at this stage of my life. Not just the finished paintings, but the questions, discoveries, changes, and creative adventures that happen between them. Because apparently, after all these years, I'm still finding new things to learn.
And I think that's a pretty wonderful thing.
The newly rebuilt Submerged Studio officially reopens tomorrow, October 9. I'd love for you to come explore.
