A Healing Journey Begins.

This entire project began as a way for me to process the loss of my beautiful dog, Olive. It was hard for me to put into words how devastating the day she passed was. I started painting. Her light and her energy had been such an important part of every day, that when she was suddenly gone, I wasn’t sure how I could move forward. I hadn’t planned on it becoming what it became. I found myself drawing olive branches, trees, and flowers. It occurred to me that her eyes were the color of green olives. Her long legs reminded me of olive vines. Her personality was like the flower. I kept painting. Eventually, I had upwards of 50 paintings. I had finally processed that loss and started painting other things that I love- music, sailboats. Then I started thinking, maybe, just maybe, I could do something with this. So here we are, sharing my grief for my beautiful dog and dabbling in the other things that bring me joy, hoping that it brings others joy too.