Seeking Enlightenment

Everyone has a measure of creativity in them, and every work of art has a story. For me, it was a long journey from the inception of, “I think I can paint” to picking up the brush and pallet knives and doing it.

A couple of weeks ago, I strolled through my garden to collect colors for my next painting and displayed live plants in a vase in my studio.

I am the artist-in-residence for the Civic Orchestra of Jacksonville this season. I paint to music, and my mission was to translate Camille Saint-Saëns’ Symphony No. 3 “Organ Symphony.”

I have been gardening for almost 10 years. There is no one in my family to hand down the skills of a gardener, so I started out small with a raised bed and relied on books and the internet as guides.

I was gifted a pack of micron pens at Christmas. I decided to pack them with some nice drawing paper on my trip to QuiltCon this past February. I thought I may have some extra time to explore drawing with them and I did!

QuiltCon is the largest modern quilting show of its kind, and 2019 took us to Nashville, Tennessee. What in the world does an abstract oil painter do at a quilt show besides show support for her quilter?