What do you think about when you look back? Do you see the joy or the pain, the mistakes or the accomplishments, or do you avoid looking...

Hello art lovers - here are a couple of upcoming events where I'll be showing and present! December 3rd - Lighting the City of Fort...

What do you cut and what do you leave in? Reduce it down. Keep it simple. Take out what isn’t important. Focus on the vision.

Yes, I have "fallen" in love seemingly without being able to do anything about it. I have also loved and today I know that someone loved...

Why do I need vacations even when I don't want to take the trouble to go on one? Because I need to stop in order to go. I need to rest...

Free Is Good! Do you love to get something for free, especially if it's something you want or need? When Central Market opened here in...

Are you like me? Do you breeze through art museums or galleries looking for what you like and bypassing the rest? I used to visit art...

Historic Fort Worth's Preservation is the Art of the City AND "Reflection" at House of NeVille Gallery and Gatherings

How about 20 years. I'm not kidding. I started this painting in 2004. I got it out recently and suddenly I knew how to do what I...

You're invited to come see my show in Sundance Square in Fort Worth going on now! My work will be there through April 28th, including the...

I'm in my seventies now and I just read something that made my whole life, and my art, make sense. I was amazed that a total stranger...

When we moved into our home 30 years ago I used to gather juniper branches in the fall to make a wreath with dried wisteria vine from a...

I feel like I'm in trouble all the time when I'm creating art. It's unfathomable. It's elusive. It's baffling. Where do I start? ...

Janis said "Dream the dream; actualize the dream; show the dream." Simple! No, not simple. I was a daydreamer whose dreams never came...

It was 1981, twenty years before I started drawing and painting in earnest. I was a very young mother and wanted to draw my daughter. ...

One of the first things Janis Bryant said to me was, "Wait until you see the possibility." Years later, a fellow artist, Charlie Harris,...

"Know that what you’re doing wrong is your style. Wrongness is precious. Watch for it, understand it, and keep it up." Robert Genn My...

Progress not perfection is my guide in my recent paintings. I’m having so much fun. My kind of fun is quiet, free, loving, curious,...

It was shocking to be told that I would have to unlearn so much if I wanted to be an artist who didn’t start until adulthood. Being an...

Janis Bryant, July 28, 2007, at my home, conducting one of our final art lessons. I met Janis in 2002, when I sought an art teacher,...