I've got a secret

"I've got a secret"

60 cm round

Oil on canvas

2025

There is something about my imagination. Something expansive and wandering, a never-ending story. I live there so much of the time. I must say that I have often wondered if I am made for this world, this life of busy and commitment and haste. This very concrete maze we humans have built for ourselves.

When I paint, I enter the portal to my imagination. It pours over me like honey. It is warm. Full of light. Mysterious. Welcoming. On the perfect day in the studio, I remember almost nothing of the time a spent there. I only see the result on the easel. The rest is a secret.

"I've got a secret" is the purest expression of secret imagination. The round canvas is so freeing! Not a landscape. Not a portrait. An organic, moving thing. The moon and the planets. The sun. The stars. This painting is far more beautiful than I have managed to photograph. And it is the first time I have used red in years. An experience in the making.

As of this writing, "I've got a secret" is available in the Italy Studio.

I awoke in the glade

"I awoke in the glade"

50 x 50 cm

Oil on canvas

2025

I awoke in the glade, amongst all life waiting patiently for me there.

The blades of grass and damp earth beneath me, the sun filtering in through my heavy eyelids.

I realized I was crying.

How long had I slept there? In the glade?

How many days, months, years, asleep though every rain and every fire. Asleep through the dark that seemed to last forever, until finally the starlings and daisies bobbing and soft rose petals heralded the day.

I have waited so long for the day.

I have waited so long for the light.

...

This painting is an ode to rebirth. One of the most stunning aspects of surviving cancer is feeling reborn. Each thing I do now, each challenge, every action, feels like the first time. I have been on this planet for more than a century, yet I suddenly find myself a tiny baby, looking on with wonder, newness, and often fear.

It is no wonder every person I meet exclaims that I look like a child!

This painting is totally beautiful. A poem.

As of this writing, "I awoke in the glade" is available in the Italy Studio.

Whimsical

"Whimsical"

80 x 80 cm

Oil and gold pigments on canvas

2025

There's a place I like to go. It is intimate. Secret. Enchanted. The light is different there. The air moves in a slow dance, the water flows freely, rushing with a sound like the wind.

Painting this place is one of my greatest joys as an artist. I have painted it many times, iterations of my own imaginary timeline, blooming or waning. I like to think of these landscapes scattered around the globe in the homes of my collectors, opening up portals of light, moving and changing with the seasons and the time of day, ever-changing worlds offering a place of peace and contemplation to those people lingering before them.

I believe creating this light is why I am here. It is why I paint.

"Whimsical" is that place. The flutter of the leaves and air moving through a lavender field.

It is a place to fall into. To breathe. To be.

At the time of this writing, "Whimsical" is available in my Italy studio.