Exuberance isn’t exactly “new art” anymore. I started this painting in October 2022 and finished it at the end of November, but I haven’t been as great at sharing my work here as I have on Instagram and I’m working on that habit. If you’d like to see the rest of my art that I haven’t written about here (yet!), feel free to check out my shop! But back to Exuberance and the process of completing it.
With some of my paintings there is a mourning period of first stages lost. This is very common for artists — fall in love with early marks, try to preserve them for a bit, and later have to sacrifice them for the overall good of the composition. It can be painful, especially during the journey of getting to the place that we call “complete.”
I started Exuberance before I went to Maui and completed it after I got back. I haven’t written about Maui (yet!), but while I was there I had one of those experiences that opens you up and changes you. Because of the timing, part of that magic of transformation lives on in this painting.
I don’t have images of the feeling I experienced and wonderful forms of life I saw when I went snorkeling, but I hold that energy close and see it live on here.
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