Would you paint it in the rain? On a train? With a fox? In a box?

I love my studio. It’s my happy place.

However, art-making can be done anywhere. We’ve all seen street artists with their sidewalk set-up. There’s the plein-air artists with their easels in a field. Muralists transport their tools on lifts. And caricaturists bring a sketchpad to wherever the tourists are!

I am also learning to be flexible and brave when it comes to making art outside the 4 walls of my studio.

This week, flexibility meant setting up my work station in a hotel room. Now, that is a challenge. I think I moved the furniture into every conceivable configuration before I found good lighting. But, I did it. And it was good for my brain to adapt, flex, problem solve, and then of course paint!

I would say most of my life has been an exercise in adapting to and accepting change. Art is no different.