"A Pot of Happiness" framed oil and acrylic painting Print

From the memories of France series. This happy, energetic piece was inspired by a friend in France who always cooked up a pot of happiness for her dinner invites. Framed in a simple white wood floater frame (see additional photo) this artwork comes ready to hang. Overall dimensions with the frame are 22 x 18. A certificate of authenticity accompanies all paintings. Please note: 1st photo taken outside and more true to color than the photo taken inside of the framed piece. About the artist- The works of Monet, Pissarro, Sisley and Morisot showed Casey-Mason a language of painterly skills that she was able to appreciate and learn from. Her early impressionistic works (1995-2010) depict landscapes, farms, nature, buildings, marine paintings, rural scenes and still lifes’. In 2002, she attended her first workshop in Monet's gardens which inspired a dream to live in France. After her second workshop in the south of France, she left her corporate job, sold her home in the U.S. and moved to the countryside of France. The landscape that had so inspired her became her life. She created light filled gardens with blooms and veggies visited daily by birds and bees. Her gardens became the main focus of the many new paintings. It was during these years she was unwittingly led to discover the works of Gerhard Richter, Joan Mitchell and Jackson Pollack. Her imagination was stirred by their use of colors, expressive brushstrokes, the reliance on intuition and their individuality. Casey-Mason realized a personal creative break through and adopted their approach which has dominated her art making over the past ten years. Celebrating this freedom, her love of color and wonder now translates onto her canvases within the style of abstractions which are never far from the rhythms of nature. the hues sitting well and resonating with intuitive marks. Casey-Mason now resides in the U.S. Artist Statement- "Before starting a painting I spend a lot of time deciding upon color combinations and experimenting with different mediums. Whether I paint to music or start each session unscripted, I begin by putting a paintbrush (knife, pen, marker etc.) to canvas, making marks haphazardly and reacting intuitively to the canvas. The moment by moment process of manipulating the paint (often times scraping off and reapplying) begins to reveal the inspiration for the piece...a place...a time...a feeling...or an experience that had a profound effect on me. It's at this time I step back and use my thoughts to fine tune the piece and make the changes necessary to complete the image. Whether it's minutes, hours or days, eventually I do know when the canvas no longer wants more of me and it is done. Life doesn’t provide the chance to redo things or the chance to always determine the end result of things. For me, creating art does." -Peggy Casey-Mason