Painting for me is a prayerful act and opens a door into
spiritual sight. Through painting, I reflect upon the
beauty given to us by our creator and towards which I
am capable of intense feelings and profound contemplation.
I find drawing and painting provide me with an opportunity
to reflect on issues of concern to me – from a tumultuous
past to a hoped for calmer present. I become totally absorbed
in another world and the sense of time disappears. The
act of painting provides me with a sense of place from
which I see beyond the realities of the surface and go
seeking for that which I love in nature and capture it.
The process is one of ever learning to see anew and understanding
through this precious gift of sight an expanded range
of images presented by nature; a special and particular
vision making itself known through my eyes in which both
the seen and the unseen are recombined in a representative
whole.
For me the act of painting provides an opportunity to
study how ordinary things are transformed by light shining
through them; and, to reflect on the relative value of
things and knowing that relative value I can do anything.
I can build upon them – I can set aside those that
I deem important at that moment and select those that
intrigue me. In nature the most vital elements and activities
endure only for a moment – it is the gesture of
that moment that recalls the memory of the vitality that
I set out to capture.
I am deeply drawn to gardens and the indescribable beauty
through the seasons – my own and places I have been
privileged to visit.
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