04/09/2023
The inspiration for this piece was what drives painters to paint…Robert Henri, in his Spirit of Art , says that “the painter looks for what she loves, and then she tries to capture it”. I am thinking as I read that seemingly obvious sentence that that is precisely how I have walked around in the visible world since I was very young: seeing and composing images that do something to my heart. We live at the shared edges of water and land…where the beautiful and linear mangroves form perfect positive/negative shape studies, where their coastal hues shelter marine life… This piece has been hanging around (No pun here!) for awhile, though this painting has been a favorite of mine…I found this client in my working space ‘visiting’ the mangrove pieces still available. Happily, this vibrant color-soaked Mangrove Party has found a home, sold to this individual who ‘gets’ my story and my perception..who sees these arrestingly beautiful trees on our coastlines as I do. Happy painter, happy art-owner!