Dancing with Fireflies Painting

Annette Rivers was trained in the classic arts in Wuerzburg, Germany, under master painter Wolfgang Lenz. The study of color and its impact on the psyche of life and emotion was one of the building blocks of her artistic expression. Through the many detours of life, she always stayed faithful to her passion for painting. When the pursuit of the arts had to be put on the backburner, Annette decided to build on her other love for expressing creativity, cooking fabulous foods. She became a chef. While not very active in the cooking business anymore, she has combined the two and formed a symbiosis of visual and tasty pleasures. Connecting to the spiritual nature of all things, she explores the flow of love and energy into a seemingly random expression of color and shape. Although her favorite medium is acrylic paint on canvas, working from the abstract to the eclectic, she doesn’t mind including ink or a wash of watercolors. Inspired by Claude Monet’s expressionism and Georgia O’Keefe’s vision, she expresses herself with bold, bright colors and cheerful subjects. “I am at my best when I paint from the soul and let my spirit guide my hand and choices of color.”