As Pride month wraps up, I wanted to take a moment to talk about something many of you know about me, but some of you don’t: I’m queer!

For the new body of work in my current show, Becoming Ourselves, I incorporated old journal entries into the background of each piece to serve as visual texture and lend the work a personal, autobiographical feel. I used journal pages from a different period of my life for each one.

I'm excited to announce my latest two-person show at Dane Arts Gallery with my friend and fellow artist Jan Richardson! In this show, we've both created work that explores aspects of the self over the course of time, approaching this theme from our own points of view.

Here's a look at my process for painting/drawing a portrait from life. I worked on this portrait for about 3.5 hours from start to finish.

I relish weekly figure drawing sessions at Atwood Atelier—not only as an opportunity to keep practicing and improving my work, but also as a chance to have one evening a week where I get to focus completely on art, no matter what.

As you may know, for the past few years, I have been working on documenting the artwork and legacy of my Grandpa, Kenneth Graham. Now, I’ve had the opportunity to transform these forgotten photos into paintings featuring my grandparents, my mom, and her four siblings.

Jan Richardson and Brigitte Boucher, artists from two different generations, working in two different media, share a common desire to explore, understand, and make peace with their own memories and family experiences

Imagine a place nestled in a bucolic mountain setting of rolling hills and lush rhododendron forests, a place where gravel paths wind among art studios buzzing with energy and creativity. This is Penland School of Crafts, and it's a dreamy place.

One day in early spring, my husband said to me, "Hey, this summer, do you want to go on an adventure to Southern Illinois to see a solar eclipse?" Naturally, I said, "heck yes!"

I didn't know much about the upcoming eclipse at that point, but it wasn't long before I caught "eclipse fever" like everyone else.

Here is a portrait I did recently at Atwood Atelier. Our sitter was a young woman named Jihae, who had lovely green highlights in her hair that were fun to draw. I spent about 3.5 hours working on this piece.

I moved a lot when I was a kid. Like many people with similar stories, my thoughts and feelings about "home" are, well, a bit complex. And so I was excited to experience Do Ho Suh's work for the first time at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art—work that explores some of these themes of home, migration, and belonging.

This was a four-hour painting from the latest Monday-night figure model session at Atwood Atelier. Overall, I'm pretty happy with it.

My studio is a cozy spare bedroom with hardwood floors, two windows, and a walk-up to our attic…

It is time for me to start a blog. I have all of these creative projects rolling around in my mind. I feel compelled to do them. I think, okay, but how?