The ecstasy

 The Ecstasy

36 x 36 inches

Oil on canvas

2024

I consider this painting, The Ecstasy", to be one of my masterpieces. Artists will tell you that they love all of their children the same. That’s true. It really is! I don’t offer any painting for sale that I would not love to live with every single day, that doesn’t necessarily require a little heartbreak when I send it off to a collector.

But “The Ecstasy” is different. I made this painting in my studio in the forest, in a season of beautiful creative flow, of ease, of innocence. As I looked at it when it was concluded, I couldn’t quite believe it was mine. The tumultuous sky was not foreboding, it was dancing, opening up to some kind of heaven.  The light was fiery, but also sweet and tender. The water was placid, peaceful under the revolutions above. It felt like a turning point for me and I didn’t know why.

This painting would go on to be on e cover of my solo exhibition invitation, set against an indigo background. It felt perfect. The centerpiece of newness and great heights for me.

Then I found out I had cancer, and everything, every single thing changed.

In the end, my show was canceled, as my year, and basically my entire life, unraveled. All the other beautiful work I made for the exhibition has sailed into the hands of collectors around the world. All except the centerpiece, this painting that has been saved and favorited by more collectors across every platform where I sell my work. It is still here, with me.

I am one of those people who believes (or at least I used to believe, it’s definitely harder now!) that everything means something. I wonder what this means?

"The Ecstasy" is a painting of power. Of rebirth. Of freedom.

I believe it is time for this one to fly.

I am ready to fly.

As of the date of this writing, "The Ecstasy" is available in my Colorado Studio.