Colorado Magic
From the intricate details of a Columbine wildflower to skies soaring over mountain peaks, Colorado is truly a magic place. I am prone to sudden and frequent exclamations to my children, “Do you...
View ArticleOf Birds and Parenting
Safe Passage detail: Ink, watercolor, pastel. (c) Colleen Briggs, 2013. Scampering around in the grass barefoot, my son suddenly squealed and leapt for the concrete patio. I went to inspect the source...
View ArticleQuelled
Quelled, 2014, 11″ x 15″, watercolor rapid little heart so undone thrashes fragile feathered chest, wings frantically fan fiery fear seen and unseen so in need of just one word held quelled in tender...
View ArticleReach
I reach for you – translucent shimmering like a spider thread flung through morning light fragile tensile by sheer ache and desire you span this mighty expanse
View ArticleThe Power of An Artist – Chihuly
Dale Chihuly blown glass sculpture at Denver Botanic Gardens, 2014. Lately I’ve been craving a little magic. Just a little lifting from the tedium of monitoring my children’s homework, some temporary...
View ArticleSilence
Unless a Grain of Wheat Falls; 2014; 29″ x 21″; watercolor. There was a time in my life when I was stunned into silence. I unexpectedly received news of harm done to someone I love, two days later met...
View ArticleMy Gift to the Sky
My child, you rise like mist from my heart, tentative tendrils of hope birthed in tender trust. Like dewy grass, I savor this holy waiting before dawn, this sacred dreaming, this watchful sending....
View ArticleLit From Within
In the golden hour before dusk, magic dances through tree tops, alights on bushes, and flits across faces. Into this enchanted forest steps a girl, and the light from within catches hold of the...
View ArticleLunge for the Light
Lunge for the Light; 2014; 20.5″ x 28.5″; mixed media: acrylic, watercolor, pastel. For the days when leaning for the light is not enough, LUNGE for the light. And even if you fall on the path in the...
View ArticleReady to Blaze
Battered but Blazing study 1; 2014; 21″ x 29″; mixed media: watercolor and pastel. I crawl out from 2014 feeling a bit battered. Nothing catastrophic. Just the grinding and grating of a persistent...
View ArticleHope In Fearful Times
Flags fly at half-mast in my lifelong hometown, Colorado Springs after two mass shootings in a month. I drive almost every day through the intersection where my family almost stumbled into a late...
View ArticleI Am Still Here
Spring; 2016; 8.5″ x 11.5″; mixed media: ink, watercolor, acrylic. Cruel winter winds too fiercely blow. They drive me deep beyond where I can speak. Everything silent except a heart beat, my own....
View ArticleSenior Photos
I absolutely adore taking senior photos! Senior year is a magic time in life, when one chapter draws to a close and the future is alive with possibility. I love spending a couple hours drawing out what...
View ArticleTend Your Soul
Recently I painted a friend's "safe place." Turbulent waters threaten her survival; and in her mind, she swims to a quiet, peaceful space to weep, dream, hope, and gain new strength before plunging...
View ArticleUnless A Grain of Wheat Falls….
All around me the earth flutters. Dreaming of the future, it sends messages like little notes for tomorrow, twirling in gray dawn sky, like rain. The tree is determined to hope. How does the tree know...
View ArticleArt in the everyday
My most treasured creative contribution to this world is my children. To study the raw materials of their souls and guide and encourage them to become all they are created by God to be, that is...
View ArticleLoving You Still (Always)
I lie flat on my back in rustling shade, gazing at the wide-eyed blue eye of forever, clear as far as I can see. Then sneaking into the outer rim of my vision, billows of twirling whirligigs,...
View ArticleDandelion
Do I truly believe... when the sacred center shatters, when hope is flung like dandelion parachutes into frigid wind, when all presses down into winter sleep when all is lost... Do I truly believe......
View ArticleSummer Rain – A Photo Essay
My beautiful and talented young friend, Brittin Lane Morrell, and I were merrily working on a photo-shoot for Pamba Toto when storm clouds churned overhead and wind blustered down the little alley...
View ArticleA Prayer for My Country
Here in Colorado, I breathe thick orange haze of Western wildfires, even as Texans stumble through water-logged debris, and evacuees flee Florida. With all its warts and weaknesses, America is the...
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