11 x 14

Oil on Board

Maple Shadow Frame

This painting is one of the flower crazed ones I have done recently. They are truly just small abstracts but the shape of the flower helps you see all the other colors that come in to play. I love the pink behind the yellow flower. It feels like a bigger painting when it is hanging.

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 paint 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 after year, that makes me keep coming back. 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.