One of my favorite things about being an artist are my road trips to deliver paintings, especially when it's for an art opening on the Gulf of Mexico. Wednesday I packed my van with paintings and headed south on a 5 hour ride to Apalachicola, Florida. Upon arrival we all went straight to work hanging art and helping get ready for the show and Friday night opening at The Bowery Gallery. The show featured my work and the paintings and sculpture of artists Anne Hemple and Ken R

During the painful days of my divorce 10 years ago I poured my heart out in words and prayers hidden below surface of my encaustic paintings. My art at that time was inspired by the upheaval in my personal life. In 1986 on the day prior to the Challenger Space Shuttle tragedy, I had a strange déjà vu feeling while painting explosions of white on a big sky blue canvas. The next morning I had the same déjà vu feeling as I watched the live television news feeds of Challenger tak