"Señor Legarto" Painting

I am a self- taught intuitive artist, painting almost exclusively in acrylics. I love the vividness and dynamics of playing with contrasting color/light emanating from darkness, once likened to the reflection of stained glass. My subject matter is reflective of my immediate world, or the experience of life as I have observed it. It is often nature inspired and psychologically based. I place great emphasis on the beauty of life, not its illusive qualities. The love of playing with paint, splashing color, and following where it leads, is my greatest passion-whether it be through a painting-layering colour on floors, doors, walls and or playing with textures-sand, pebbles, mixed media-using brush sponge bristles fingers, palette knife etc My process begins with meditation and following my brush where it leads using an umber wash -there is no plan -though in some instances the subject has been intuited through words,-IE.my husbands poetry My actual pursuit of painting began after a self discovery retreat -where we were given a series of exercises related to discovering our life's passion or purpose. The answer I received three times was play with paint- After returning home, I was invited by a family friend -who was an artist-to visit an informal workshop she put together called- Playing with Paint- This was too synchronistic to pass up- And so whether it be a quest, journey, or some process of personal healing my art has been given as guidance that I follow, and continue to share with others. My paintings tend to find their perfect homes-People have been drawn to what resonates within-themselves.