Welcome

New Year's greetings and welcome to The Gilded Bloom!  During January I have been hard at work redesigning this site to feature more art, photographs, ideas for living creatively, and of course, more flowers.  

I hope you will enjoy and explore the new blog design.  It now includes samples of my mixed media artwork, photography, and botanical illustrations.  It will also be a journal of my inspiration and a way for me to share the places, events, people and objects that enable me to live a creative and productive life as an artist.  Because so much of my work is inspired by nature, you can surely expect posts about the naturescapes that my husband and I visit, and most certainly, the flowers that I add to the ever-expanding garden in our backyard. 

The Gilded Bloom will also feature a new series called "Treats" which will suggest inexpensive ways to treat yourself well so you can live a more fulfilling and creative life.  Living creatively means living purposefully, understanding what one wants, and learning day-by-day how to navigate through the many distractions that can so easily take us away from the creative life.  

So, I invite you to join me as The Gilded Bloom blossoms...