A commissioned piece can permanently carry material from your own world. Earth from the ranch, sand from the beach where you were married.

A house you leave for the summer is a different environment than a house you live in. Here is how to leave art in one safely.

The honest answer is usually not very much in money, and that is not the same as worthless. Here is how to actually find out.

Five ways a commission can end badly, all of them preventable, written by someone who would rather you avoid them than hire her.

It is the most natural place in the room to put art, and the hardest on a painting. Here is how to tell whether yours is safe.

Every Thursday since 1975, which makes it the longest continuously running art walk in the country. Here is how to actually do it.

You choose a great deal in a commission. Composition is not one of them, and here is the honest reason why.

Private aviation terminals are beginning to host curated exhibitions. Here is why original art belongs naturally in these travel spaces.

Most people file it without reading it. Here is what a real one contains, and what a weak one is missing.

The honest timeline, including the two stages that surprise everyone and cannot be shortened.

If you are furnishing a whole house, you do not need art everywhere. You need it in four places, in this order.

A working artist's guide to seeing real work in Greater Phoenix, by season, with nothing on the list that is not worth your evening.

A small piece about a small thing that turns out to matter more than it should.

The words on the label matter more than most people realize. A plain guide to what you are actually acquiring.

It is a conversation about your room, not an interrogation. Here is exactly what I ask and why, so nothing about it is a surprise.

A thoughtful way to choose original art for a yacht interior by looking at scale, sightlines, materials, and how the rooms are actually used.

The walls are the last thing and the one people rush hardest. Here is a calmer way to work through them.

California is the largest single source of people moving here. A few things change about art, and one of them surprises everyone.

Every material in a piece of mine has a name and a place. Here is the standard behind that, and why nothing is ever taken from protected land.

These paintings hold real Sedona soil, carried back and set into the surface, so the place itself lives in the work. Here is why the earth is really in them.