Let me begin by saying a huge THANK YOU to my eye doctors:

Dr. Richard A. Wolitz of Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco, CA.

Dr. Daniel M. Schwartz of UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA.

Without their expert care, I would be virtually blind right now.  They have been brilliant and wonderful!  Thank you God for providing me with such good doctors and thank you for the healing of my vision.  Having once lost and now regained I treasure it all the more.  Patricia Preble

Within these pages I present and discuss various aspects and ideas that form the background of my work.  Lately I have been creating video blogs and loading them onto YouTube and that has been loads of fun.  

In the studio I work on a number of different series of paintings.  The Paths of Golden Gate Park, Petroglyphs and Lascaux, Oceans, Clouds/Sky/and the Archetypal Realms, and lately portraiture.  My processes and creativity keep growing and changing. People ask me, "Are you still doing this or that series?"  Yes I am.  But they are always evolving.

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  People and Pets

Acrylic, Watercolor, Pastel, or Charcoal

Priced beginning at $250

8" x 10" photograph $120

"Petie": Acrylic on Canvas

 

Images can also be captured from old slides and placed into a new format using Photoshop    

The mural project has been ongoing for a number of years.  I have created interior and exterior murals.  And, as digital technology has developed, I have expanded into panoramic photographic murals.

The Dancing Ladies
Encaustic on Paper
11" x 15"

Horses
Encaustic on torn paper
11" x 15"

The Black Cow
Encaustic on Egyptian Cartonage
14" x 18"

I always wanted to get a rock-like surface for the encaustic series of petroglyphs and  Lascaux paintings.  In 2007 I brought a ten-year process to fruition with the use of cartonage, an ancient Egyptian method of surface construction to create something that looks like a rock.

About the encaustic process.

Finding the mental and emotional states required to gain communion with higher realms of being requires a certain amount of meditation practice.  I have a few of my favorite techniques listed on my de-stress meditation page.

The 4 Minute Meditation is easily done and, since it takes but four minutes to complete, can be done by just about anyone.  It's a start.  (The link will take you to YouTube.  To come back here, press the back button on your browser, or, stay on You Tube and investigate other meditation videos.)

If you are curious and would like an authentic Buddhist course, the Tibetan Buddhist site, AroBuddhism gives an internet email course in meditation

Another site for meditation practice, this one from the Taoist tradition, is Spring Forest Chi Gung.  Master Lin is one of the best healers I have heard of.