My Fairy-Tale Life, by Steven Boone

Inspiration for painting art is as broad as the universe. Subjects are endless. Some artists choose to have no subject at all, but let color...

To be honest, the skeleton motif took me by surprise here in Mexico and then I stayed with it ⏤ creating about a dozen paintings so far. Cer...

Vanitas, Noche Encantada , oil on linen, 30 x 40 inches (completed 12/25/2022) In my recent painting, streaking comets represent the brevity...

A painting that began 23 years ago has been completed. July 5, 1999 my oldest daughter died of cancer at the age of nineteen. Numerous times...

It started a couple of years ago when I made an oil painting of a young Frida Kahlo ,_ (Mexican,-6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954 ) with a skeleto...

  The mid wife looked up at me from where my newborn child lay and asked, “Do you want to cut the cord?” It was a special moment in the livi...

Today is the anniversary of the transcendence into the immortal spiritual realm of my oldest daughter. It was July 5, 1999, when Naomi, then...

Have you ever written a letter to your future self? Then sealed it and put a date on it—not to be opened until then? Lately I have been ...

Last weekend was the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz , the notorious German concentration camp in Poland where  in...

  At 86 years old, Polly's energy arrived in short bursts and then would fly away like a bird that longed to break free from an...

A girl paddling on Lake Dal, Kashmir, India During my daughter Naomi's eighteenth year, death was encroaching upon her so forc...

Backyard of my parents former home, Santa Barbara, California There is so much that I want to give you. You know Steven, when you...

It feels as though I am on auto pilot; that is, going forward but not driving. I am surprised that nothing particularly excites me an...

Life cannot be held, only experienced. To try and hold it is when we realize it is but a dream. When we believe we are in possession of...