It's been 2 years~

I would rather paint than almost anything else in the world, so why has it been so long since my last post?
The answer is simple..life gets first priority.
That's it.
And the problem with painting is that the more you do it the better you get. As with most things in life, practice makes perfect. And everytime these interruptions happen, I almost feel like I'm a newbie again. Yes in time and with patience it comes back, but I definitely digress.

At this rate I will always be an 'emerging artist'. Painting scenes from my life and memory, I slowly uncover forms, shadows and relationships not initially remembered.  The unsettling air in the paint begins to contradict the nameable world of flowers, bowls and coffee cups.  The paintings’ apparent delight quietly unravels into colored aberration, illusions into brushed marks, and despite the passage of time, I literally move into each new canvas and loose track of the hours and time.

 

This was completed in 2012. This photo doesn't show it, but it is a huge painting which hangs in the dining room, 36" by 48". It resinates from my childhood memories from the Napa Valley.