I wept silently in front of “The Poet’s Garden” displayed in the Chicago Art Institute 4 years ago.
I was viewing Van Gogh’s work in person for the first time.

This brilliant painting spoke to me, shimmering from across the room, leaving me mesmerized, shivering with emotion.
I was moved beyond words, it simply reached out and shook me to the core.
I cannot explain exactly what it was about the painting.
The wonder of it is, I don’t have to.

If ART speaks to you, it is enough.
Imagine buying a music CD saying to the clerk
“I don’t know anything about music but I really like this, do you think it’s a good choice? ”
Yet I hear this so often when people speak of art.

At a seminar on’ Art as an Investment’ the appraiser’s first address to us was ‘Art should be a passionate buy first’.
In other words, she said, if you like it, buy it.
Art can draw us into a world of emotional experience, affecting each of us differently. That is part of its beauty.

A tapestry of life experience blooms in constant discovery in my own work.
The art evolves when the artist evolves.

New Puffy Clouds 9×12 Oil on canvas

Creating the work isn’t about empowering the artist, it’s an offering to the viewer, for your experience to transcend, your story to accompany, your beauty to behold.