My Heart is Fertile Soil Painting

This Piece is painted With Holbein artist gouache and Sakura water-based pens on Arches water color paper. The image is centered on 22 x 30 inch paper with a 1/2 inch border around it. Image size is 21 x 29 inches. The paper has a deckled edge. Painting is signed at the bottom right of the paper, not on the image. Finished Friday: My Heart is Fertile Soil gouache and pen on paper 29 x 21 inches 2022 Limited edition prints available through artist. This painting is inspired by a visit to Limahuli Garden & Preserve, National Tropical Botanical Garden in Kauai. This is a piece bookended by loss. I started the painting 3 weeks after my mother passed and completed it around 3 weeks after a good friend passed, both from cancer. For me, painting is a working meditation. Creating this piece helped me process and work through my grief. 2022 was a challenging year. I was the primary caretaker for my mother as cancer took away her autonomy and ultimately her life. After her death, I became a source of information, comfort and care for my dear friend as she processed her own terminal diagnosis and mortality. I learned much about myself over the past 12 months; my strength, compassion, empathy and ability to find humor and light in dark times. Death is a part of the cycle of life and from death can come much beauty. We only need to think of the composting matter which feeds the soil to create lush gardens and forests to illustrate this. Of all the things I experienced this year I am most astounded by the depth of love within my heart and my ability to give. The title of this painting, My Heart is Fertile Soil, is an acknowledgment of this.

Painting:Gouache on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:22 W x 30 H x 0.1 D in

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