This masterpiece, created in one afternoon in 2011 in my upstairs bedroom-turned-studio. As with most of my best pieces, I didn't recognize how good it was until years later. I can't even explain the joy that was going thru my veins to my arms to my hands. It was like being overwhelmed by joy- spiritual. Obviously, there was no composition or picture in mind that I needed to create to resemble something. It was sheer connection with color. The background started out dark (indigo, ultramarine, etc.) and as was my custom early in my painting career, I gleefully and haphazardly chose colors to add to the background, mixing them directly on to the canvas rather than painstakingly mixing on a palette to get "just the right" color before adding to the canvas. Its more fun that way. See what happens. Turns out, the mixing is not so haphazard after all. I chose these colors for a reason. They mean something. They make me feel a certain way. They express something that I am feeling at the time. Whether that same feeling conveys to the viewer is not the objective. The viewer will take their own impression, as it should be.
Exhibited at Rawls Museum of Art, Courtland, VA National juried exhibition by Gayle Paul, juror (April 2012)
