My painting practice is nourished, challenged and affirmed by reading, mindful reflection and writing. Here are some of my studio book companions.
Bal, Mieke. 1991. Reading “Rembrandt”. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Barrows, Anita & Macy, Joanna. 1996. Rilke’s Book of Hours. New York: Riverhead Books.
Barrows, Anita & Macy, Joanna. 2005. In Praise of Mortality-Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies & Sonnets To Orpheus. New York: Riverhead Books.
Betterton, Rosemary. 2004. Unframed-Practices and politics of women’s contemporary painting. New York: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Bevan, Robert. 2007. The Destruction of Memory-Architecture at War. London: Reaktion Books.
Bonnefoy, Yves. 1995. The Lure And The Truth of Painting. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Borges, Jorge Luis. 1962. Ficciones. New York: Grove Press.
Casey, Edward. S. 1993. Getting Back Into Place-Toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place-World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Casey, Edward. S. 1998. The Fate of Place. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Casey, Edward. S. 2000. Remembering- A Phenomenological Study. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press.
Casey, Edward. S. 2002. Representing Place-Landscape Painting & Maps. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Celaya, Enrique Martinez. 2006. Early Work. DelRay Beach: Whale and Star Press.
Ettinger, Bracha. 2006. The Matrixial Border Space. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Florence, Penny & Foster, Nicola. 2000. Differential Aesthetics- Art Practices, philosophy and feminist understandings. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company.
Foster, Margaret. 2006. Keeping The World Away- A Novel. New York: Ballantine Books.
Gilligan, Carol. 2008. Kyra-A Novel. New York: Random House.
Green, Denise. 2005. Metonymy in Contemporary Art: A New Paradigm. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Glover, Douglas. 2003. Elle- A Novel. Fredericton: GooseLane Editions.
Haynes, Deborah. 2003. Art Lessons-Meditations on the Creative Life. Boulder: Westview Press.
Haynes, Deborah. 1997. The Vocation of The Artist. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Heidegger, Martin. 1971. Poetry, Language, Thought. New York: Harper Collins.
LeGuin, Ursula K. (Trans.) 2002 Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Marion, Jean-Luc. 2004. The Crossing of the Visible. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Mistral, Gabriela. 2002. Selected Poems and Prose Poems. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Neruda, Pablo. 1974. The Book of Questions. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press.
Nicholsen, Shierry Weber. 2002. The Love of Nature and the End of the World-The Unspoken Dimensions of Environmental Concern. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Ottman, Klaus. 2004. The Genius Decision-The Extraordinary and the Postmodern Condition. Putnam: Spring Publications.
Parker, Palmer. 2000. Let Your Life Speak-Listening for the Voice of Vocation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Press.
Rakow, Mary. 2002. The Memory Room. Washington, DC: Shoemaker & Hoard.
Redon, Odilon. 1986. To Myself. Notes on Life, Art and Artists. New York: George Braziller, Inc.
Scarry, Elaine. 1999. On Beauty And Being Just. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Sewall, Laura. 2000. Sight and Sensibility-The Ecopsychology of Perception. New York: Tarcher/Putnam.
Smith, Michael, B. (Translator/Editor). 1993. The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader-Philosophy and Painting. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.
Solnit, Rebecca. 2005. A Field Guide to Getting Lost. New York: Penguin Group.
Stewart, Susan. 2003. Columbarium. Chicago; University of Chicago Press.
Whittaker, Richard. 2007. The Conversations. DelRay Beach: Whale & Star Press.
Woodman, Marion. 1992. Leaving My Father’s House - A Journey to Conscious Femininity. Boston: Shambhala Press.