January has been a whirlwind of a month! The Desert Plein Air Festival, workshops, Paint Outs, the STRADA Challenge and an art show at the La Quinta Museum! My head hasn’t stopped spinning and it’s only mid month!
I was honored to have two paintings jury in by a very prestigious group of judges (Steven Biller Palm Springs life, Lia Skidmore of Skidmore Contemporary Art Gallery and Christine Giles of the Palm Springs Art Museum!) for this exhibit! I also had entered a painting from our paint outs for the festival for Plein air, and I won first place for “Smoke Tree Dreamin”! Such an honor!

After the festival, we then had an Artist reception at the La Quinta Museum where my painting “clouds” is being shown! Right now the Strada challenge is half over, and I am painting every day and putting each painting in and so far I am still in the running! Such an amazing experience and I’ve met so many people along the way this month looking forward to a mini trip to Borrego Springs coming up where I’ll have my easel in tow!