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I made these note cards and boxes for gifts.
12/02/2025

I made these note cards and boxes for gifts.

These are the most recent commissions that I just finished. There is 24 ct gold on both and a cross painted in the schoo...
03/27/2025

These are the most recent commissions that I just finished. There is 24 ct gold on both and a cross painted in the school colors using gouach. A lot of work in the design process working out spaces and size of pens.

08/17/2022

Last night, while waiting to board our plane, Carter Jean was being her usual inquisitive self wanting to meet and say “hi” to everyone she could, until she walked up on this man.

He reached out and asked if she wanted to sit with him.
He pulled out his tablet and showed her how to draw with it, they watched cartoons together, and she offered him snacks.

This wasn’t a short little exchange, this was 45 minutes.
Watching them in that moment, I couldn’t help but think, different genders, different races, different generations, and the best of friends.

This is the world I want for her.
In a country that is so deeply divided by beliefs, I want her life to be filled with moments like this... not liberal or conservative republican or democrat, socialist or capitalist, just HUMAN.

Joseph from Samsungus in Oklahoma, if this should happen to find you.
Thank you for showing my daughter what kindness and compassion looks like.
Continue to shine your light in the world.

Credit: Kevin Armentrout

This newest commission uses the full sheet of paper and will be bound in a large hand bound book for a collector of napk...
07/20/2022

This newest commission uses the full sheet of paper and will be bound in a large hand bound book for a collector of napkins. I found it very good for figuring out how to work on large sheets without making any dings!

Thanks to the Washington Calligraphy Guild and their Scripsit magazine showing the art of its members in celebration of ...
02/11/2022

Thanks to the Washington Calligraphy Guild and their Scripsit magazine showing the art of its members in celebration of 45 years of existence. I was one of the judges and had a page showing the Book of Memorial gifts I recently did for a Catholic Church in Linthicum.

These are pages with silver gilt for a memorial book for a bookbinder.
11/16/2021

These are pages with silver gilt for a memorial book for a bookbinder.

These are memorial books tgatI prepared for the bookbinder.
11/16/2021

These are memorial books tgatI prepared for the bookbinder.

Here is our church cookbook for which I did the cover , all art and calligraphy for the chapter headings.
11/16/2021

Here is our church cookbook for which I did the cover , all art and calligraphy for the chapter headings.

These are some of my latest works: this for the zoom class I took with John Stevens.
02/19/2021

These are some of my latest works: this for the zoom class I took with John Stevens.

11/28/2020

ANAM CARA

In the Celtic tradition, there is a beautiful understanding of love and friendship. One of the fascinating ideas here is the idea of soul-love; the old Gaelic term for this is anam cara. Anam is the Gaelic word for soul and cara is the word for friend. So anam cara in the Celtic world was the "soul friend."

In everyone's life, there is a great need for an anam cara, a soul friend. In this love, you are understood as you are without mask or pretension. The superficial and functional lies and half-truths of social acquaintance fall away, you can be as you really are. Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home.

The anam cara experience opens a friendship that is not wounded or limited by separation or distance. Such friendship can remain alive even when the friends live far away from each other. Because they have broken through the barriers of persona and egoism to the soul level, the unity of their souls is not easily severed. When the soul is awakened, physical space is transfigured. Even across the distance, two friends can stay attuned to each other and continue to sense the flow of each other's lives. With your anam cara you awaken the eternal.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpts from his book, Anam Cara
Ordering Info: https://www.johnodonohue.com/store

Co. Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

This wedding dedication was just finished for a family who is Irish and for whom the Celtic knot has meaning.
10/22/2020

This wedding dedication was just finished for a family who is Irish and for whom the Celtic knot has meaning.

This is a photo transfer done with colored pencils. It shows a religious woman writing on scrolls much as Hildegard from...
06/23/2020

This is a photo transfer done with colored pencils. It shows a religious woman writing on scrolls much as Hildegard from Bingen would have done in the 11th century. This is a quote of hers using built up Roman caps with pencil and gouache.

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