24 x 36

Oil on Canvas

Maple Shadow Frame

This painting is one of a series of abstracted flower scenes I started at the very end of my summer at Nimrod. I spend 6 weeks painting 4-6 hours a day when I am there and it leads to dramatic shifts in what I painting to have all that time in the studio. It is not easy running Nimrod ( an artist workshop retreat) but it is the unbroken time, year and year, that makes me keep doing. My work just leaps because of having that time instead of just meandering along. I have been doing that 23 years and every single year I see a great deal of difference in what I am painting when I get there and what I paint when I am leaving. This painting was one in the series that are smaller and that I did just for sheer fun to layer color on color and make a painting that is joyous in its summery feel.

This particular work is one that I painted vertically on a tradition horizontal canvas. I love to do that. I am not sure what that means, but I think the flowers needed climbing room in this one. The pinks are softer and the whole painting has a lighter feel than some of the others.