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People, Places &
the Creative Life

Stories from the studio, the road, and the stage.

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Beijing Super Clinic, 2015
Aug 2015 Life & Reflection

Beijing Super Clinic, 2015

The Creativity Workshop with two curvaceous figure-drawing models and 60 executives from a multi-national conglomerate had just come to a close when the message hit my phone. Though it seemed like a stretch and huge hassle, I accepted a last minute invitation to appear on a Chinese docudrama two days later, rerouting my original flight […]

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The Wimbledon of Painting, 2015
Aug 2015 Art & Creativity

The Wimbledon of Painting, 2015

For a month this summer I resided at the Cumberland Hotel across from Marble Arch in the center of London. My purpose there was to create a large mural in busy hotel lobby. To inform the painting, I spent several days touring the city with my sketchbook and worked up 100 black and white drawings […]

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Something To Write Home About, New York, 2015
Aug 2015 Art & Creativity

Something To Write Home About, New York, 2015

A multi-dimensional artistic event at LaMama in New York City organized by Singaporean artists to commemorate the 50th birthday of the nation. We were pleased to be part of this colorful and meaningful event.  

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Diving Den and Now, 1979-2015
Apr 2015 Travel & Culture

Diving Den and Now, 1979-2015

In 1979, when I earned my PADI scuba diving license, the big deal was a buoyancy control device that could, with the touch of a button, inflate or deflate a bladder of air, seamlessly adjusting my position in the water. The wetsuits we needed to wear due to the cold currents circulating around the Santa […]

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Step by Step; Gregory Burns & Paul Fairhurst trek in Ladakh, 11min Video, 2015
Apr 2015 Travel & Culture

Step by Step; Gregory Burns & Paul Fairhurst trek in Ladakh, 11min Video, 2015

When Gregory, a five-time Paralympic medal winner, and Paul first met there was an instant connection. Not only because their

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Year in the Mirror, 2014
Jan 2015 Art & Creativity

Year in the Mirror, 2014

Wishing you all a great  2015 ahead and may we start the year with gratitude. Warm wishes, big hugs and kisses Angie & Gregory As with most new years we can recall, 2014 began on Jan 1. This was perhaps the only sure thing we knew about the year that would follow. It soon became […]

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Cruising for a Change, 2014
Oct 2014 Travel & Culture

Cruising for a Change, 2014

On my birthday, an email invitation to join a Seabourn Cruise as a guest lecturer in less than a week landed in my inbox. We would rendezvous with the vessel in Israel before sailing through the Suez Canal and on to Jordan, Egypt and finally Oman. Knowing little about the entire region, except that they […]

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Blue Roof Museum of Chengdu, Chengdu, CHINA 2014
Sep 2014 Art & Creativity

Blue Roof Museum of Chengdu, Chengdu, CHINA 2014

We have just returned from the opening of an exhibition of artworks by ‘International Disabled Artists’ at the Blue Roof Museum in Chengdu, China. With two French, one Singaporean and two American artists in attendance, the works ranged from paintings through sculptures and into photography. It had been a decade since I’d met Dan Keplinger, […]

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Trekking in Ladakh, 2014
Aug 2014 Art & Creativity

Trekking in Ladakh, 2014

What started out more than a year ago as a simple statement, “We should do something together” finally came to fruition as Paul (who broke his neck three years ago while cycling) and I (who contracted polio as a child) walked under a string of prayer flags fluttering in the wind in Ladakh, India. We […]

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