So the wind won't blow it all away Art Print

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So the wind won't blow it all away
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A single white bloom of Magnolia Stellata twists and curls open against a warm, glowing backdrop of sun baked and crumbling old bricks. This is a very casual painting done en plein air in my backyard. Every year this tree bursts a thousand dancing white stars into bloom right around my birthday, April 1st, tiny flags demarcating a particular place and time. The thick, fleshy petals are like some sort of sensual sea creatures. The fragrance is charming, and at night the whole show seems to glow in the dark, a quiet moment of glory on the edge of a changing season. Eventually, the wind comes, and blows it all away.
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The slightly unfinished quality of this painting, with unpainted edges, and barely delineated brick suits my own sense of the ephemeral qualities of the natural world, and our place in it, a thing one is, rather unavoidably, driven to consider, at least once a year.

To me, making art is about the stopping of time, as are so many of the things I most love doing. I don't believe in time as we know it. When I become engaged in creating something, I no longer feel subject to time's constricting whims. That is why I am driven to create. I love the light touch and thrilling chemistry of watercolor painting, the bold strokes possible in pastel work, the patterns I can create with an ink drawing, and learning something new, always. Color thrills me. Texture delights. I hope with each work to retain the clarity of what I see, and bring that into view for others. I may not always achieve that, but the honest desire is present in each of my pieces. For those who enjoy facts; I am a signature member of...

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