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The 2025 AMR Open Studios Tour

For the second year, I will be participating in the AMR artists’ open studios tour here in the Catskills where 45 artists will be welcoming visitors over the last weekend in July: Friday 25, Saturday 26 and Sunday 27, 2025.

It’s a self-guided driving tour of private art studios and public art galleries in the scenic Catskills of Delaware County.

The aim of the tour is to connect people to art, and expose more visitors and residents to the expansively vibrant arts and cultural life of the Catskills. I’m so honored and pleased to be included.

Last year, I decided that I would focus on original art and print journals to counter the rising risk of AI possibly using my online work: my photography and my writing voice. I wanted to live and work more in real time – in real life – and less on the internet, but I will continue to write stories about the local community like my recent piece on Estro New York, in Andes. I needed a presence to show my work – a base of operations – so I got a studio in Margaretville.

Please visit me in the studio at the following dates and times to view watercolors, paintings, photography and print journals, plus a special new project that I will be debuting.

Time: 11am – 5pm

Dates: Friday July 25th, Saturday July 26th & Sunday July 28th, 2025

Address: 785 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Margaretville, NY 12455

Maps are available at The Commons Building and at Upstate Dispatch and the Longyear Gallery and at businesses across the Catskills.

There’s also a party at 1053 Gallery the prior Thursday, 24th July 2025 from 5 – 7pm. Hope to see you there!

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Estro New York: A New Store in Andes

There’s something for everyone in this beautiful little hamlet.

Last month, Estro New York opened in the former Wilson’s Bread premises on Main Street in Andes. This eclectic new design store with “furniture, art and objects”, mostly vintage, joins coffee shops, diners, a grocery store, book store, a working farm, art galleries, a hotel-restaurant-bar owned by one of the community’s most committed members, the tasting room of a local cider-maker, library, historical society, vintage clothing stores, record shop, wine store, a yoga studio, and finally, an art space, where weekly figure drawing classes are held during the summer by the cool, babbling brook that runs through the town. 

*Pauses to take a deep breath* Have I left anything out? 

All these businesses make this gorgeous little hamlet one of the Great Western Catskills’ most diverse small towns. 

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Farm Life in the Catskills

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I’ve recently been receiving a lot of kind feedback on the writing I do here, and some inquiries into what I’ve been up to since I last posted back in June. It’s the feedback – along with the helpful donations – that keeps me going, so here’s an update. Daily Catskills will resume in the next few days, from the September equinox until Winter solstice and all the snowbirds will shortly be seeing our Fall in all its glory from afar. Stay tuned!

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