Meditating on Color

I have been feeling liberated from “shoulds” in my painting and have been exploring simple color, brushstrokes and expression. Sometimes I come up with paintings which look like a real place (this one reminds me of reflections in a pond) and some definitely don’t. Either way, I’m loving it.

I hope that I can keep learning, keep finding new colors (thank you, Lucy!), keep exploring new marks and techniques and keep expressing the joy and sadness in being a human being on earth.

You can take a look at my latest small video to see how I worked on this painting.

My new happy project - Abstract art book "Abstract Journey" - is ready

I’m so happy to me finishing up a little passion project, the writing of a book about my transformation into an abstract artist, leaving behind realism and representationalism. I’ve been on this path for a while, and the infatuation with color and texture has been continuing unabated, so I think it’s time to declare myself.

You can see the preorder page for the eBook and the paperback version will be published soon on Amazon as well.

My eBook is available for preorder, and the paperback will be coming out soon!

I never felt as strongly about my realistic landscapes and florals as I have about my recent work in impressionism and abstraction. For some reason, painting this new way (for me) makes me more able to wonder, laugh, enjoy and think than when I am simply pointing to a beautiful scene in the world.

“Cloud of Witnesses I,” Acrylic on Board, 15”x24”

I’ve been absolutely preoccupied recently with this type of painting, and the meanings these works point to are mostly spiritual and emotional. The one above is titled “Cloud of Witnesses” and points to the spiritual realities beyond our physical world, particularly to the witnesses in heaven who lift us up in love and prayer as we fight our fights.

In the book “Abstract Journey” I talk about my gradual change in both my personal points of view and roles as well as in my artistic life. As I left behind my hands-on role as parent, I was also facing the enormous changes in our social and political settings here in America. The changes in this outward life were paralleled by changes in the way I defined my art.

I discuss how I tackled new ways to express myself in paint and color, and new techniques which inspired me in my search for a more abstracted artistic identity.

If you are interested, you can click on the links above to see the preorder page for the eBook “Abstract Journey” and you can also recheck my website in a few weeks for links to the paperback version; both will be on Amazon.