Botanic Garden Painting

I feel there is an energetic relation between emotions and the colors I use. I listen to my instinct and relate the colors to the experience I paint. I smell the air and picture myself there in my paintings. My goal is to draw my viewers into the paintings with me, for them to escape to another place to find peace, harmony, or majestic power. Art can help ease the stress of your normal day to day life, your work, your relationships, your fears, and troubles. I use texture to give the paintings life when you are looking at the sunflowers in “Sunflowers on a Windy Day” you can feel the wind gently brush across your face, you can hear it whisper through the flowers as they softly sway against one another and you feel at peace. In “Point Break” I have a giant wave where you can feel the power behind Mother Nature as she crashes along the point break and you can smell the salt of the sea as it washes you away.