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When I discovered art it was as if someone turned on the light, and I hadn't even realized I was sitting in the dark. Color, pattern, light, rhythm. It is as if there is a dialogue, a dance, a song going on all around us all the time. But we so seldom stop to experience it. The material constructs of our lives channel our thoughts and hearts away from the eternal. When I create art, I step out of that constructed man made world of false priorities. In focusing on a single image, a single point in time, I am released into the huge expanse of the infinite. Sometimes an image catches my eye and is imprinted in my mind, frozen in time. It sparks my imagination, I feel a surge of life. That tells me I need to paint this image. To take it in, learn from it, try to unravel the symbolism that hovers just outside my understanding. And once I have spent that time, become connected to the image, expressed it through my eyes, it is now a part of me. It has taught me, enlightened me, expanded me. And when that connection happens part of me stays with the painting, becomes part of the paint and canvas and travels with it to its new home. And somehow that expression of something other than physical reality can to speak to someone else, to connect us in a way that only art can. The quest for that true connection is what keeps me hopeful and alive.
Plus, it's fun and beats doing housework or watching TV! :)
So thanks for stopping by to look at my paintings, I hope you enjoy them. They are my teachers, my companions, my heart.
