We all wear different hats for different occasions.  As an art instructor, I wore a particular hat, or mask if you will.  This mask differed from my artist persona and that differed from my wife and my mother “hat”.  All felt authentically me, just me in different settings and different roles.  Of all the hats I have worn in my life, my artist hat is the most comfortable, I believe.  It is intuitive.  Being a mother, intuitive, but doubting.  Always questioning.  The artist hat is a comfortable fit, and I often don’t know where I am going, but I am wearing it! HA

I will be soon be traveling to London for my exhibition at The Brick Lane Gallery.  It runs from May 19 – 31.  It is a totally new hat for me: International exhibition!  I will be looking forward to working with my good friend and excellent artist, Janet Weight Reed.  She is my mentor and friend:  I always learn how to better wear my artist hat when I am with her.

This image is from a painting called “Buffalo Headdress”.  It is a rende3ring of a ceremonial headdress which was worn by Native American Plains Indians.  This was an authentic role and an authentic “hat” to the wearer.  May we all be comfortable in the hats we place on our heads!