Last week was the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax. The highlight for me was a short (forty minute) film, There’s Been a Terrible...

Blue skies from now, originally uploaded by leyaevelyn. Sunday evening I went to a concert/dance performance that was on the grounds of...

All the way to the hospital yesterday morning, I felt like I wasn’t doing this: it was someone else and I was just in the car watching...

Last week in my class, a student asked me what is abstract art. He wanted me to talk about it because he had never done it. This was his...

Last weekend, Lila and I went to Brule on the North Shore to visit with my friend Greta and some of her family. There were eight people...

IMG_3556, originally uploaded by leyaevelyn.

When I was painting the walls of my house recently, I put together chips of the various colors I wanted to use: various grays, light and...

A few days ago I received an email from someone I  know who is interested in my work.  She mentioned she had a love affair with red, did...

IMG_3438, originally uploaded by leyaevelyn. So I’ve had my stint in the Big City during the Big Heat Wave: it was wonderful being with...

IMG_3427, originally uploaded by leyaevelyn. Sad to leave, happy to be home.  I could fill a bucket with tears; love the cool rain.

The heat wave in NYC continues and, of course will abate the day I leave. So yesterday and today Damian and I are staying indoors where...

Yesterday Damian and I braved the intense NYC heat to go to the James Turrell light show at the Guggenheim. Turrell had transformed the...

Besides cleaning up the mess from painting my walls, cleaning my studio, weeding and planting in the garden, I went to two great jazz...