I have created objects of art with a camera, stained glass, beads, yarn, stones and clay for many years, paint just this past year. Having created something out of many objects over the years...I have found through painting that it is a much easier way to communicate this life and share it with so many more people. Painting is conducive to relay feelings and expressions (depending on the time of day that one is painting) through choice of colors and movement (of brush/painting knife)...one color or choice of placement of said color can enhance and express so much.....I enjoy the flexibility and freedom of painting. Each canvas takes on a life of its own. I let the paint talk for itself, sometimes it speaks volumes over what I could ever say or translate. To me each individual painting is like a set of fingerprints...no two are ever alike.
Most of what I paint is up to the seer to decide what it is to them. Here is an example of what I mean when I say the seer decides. I showed my painting 'Dragon Fire' to my nephew, to him it contained a dog way in the background and a dragon breathing fire mid-section going through and out of the painting -- exit right. He also saw a man surprised by the dragon's destruction who is at the bottom left coming into the painting. Long story short, my nephew, who owns a little terrier for companionship,, was shot in a random robbing this year, he is paralyzed from the waist down and is now confined to a wheelchairfor life. He saw the painting 'Dragon Fire' and associated it to his life situation. I did not see what he saw in the painting. I saw horses running into the sunset.
My friend and mentor Rhonda Hall is featured on this site. I thank her for all of her enthusiam, joy and love of art.
Other sites that my work is posted: Yessy and RedBubble
