Description

“Alive”

original oil painting on linen

The artist’s most expressive painting to date. What intended to be an orange rose came alive with bright highlights, bold shadows, and rich warm layered reds throughout. Intentions disappeared as the brush strokes began layering color atop linen. The creative process took over and for the first time in the artist’s career, she let the intuition guide her, more heartfelt than cerebral. “I’ve never felt so alive as I have with this piece,” states the artist. The gliding strokes of the paintbrush, the relationships with color, the intersections of petals, but mostly, the giving in to creativity, the letting go of the need for perfection, and to just be. ALIVE.