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This painting is about exploration into the vast unknown. While getting caught up with life, we sometimes lose site of our priorities and take the people who love us the most for granted. Under dire situations, in the chaotic storms of our lives, we get grounded in what and who is important to us. We reach into the depths of our souls and find those steady rocks to ground us, flourishing in the eye of the storm.

I have never seen artmaking as a choice, but rather as a necessary and obvious part of living. What I am creating is always changing, but my commitment to creativity is an inevitable constant. The way I see it, the process of artmaking helps to integrate the endless information coming into the brain with the already present and always working imagination. It helps to process past experiences and vision future ones, all the while giving my mind, body and spirit a pathway to actually BE in the present moment of creation. As I paint, I notice my breathing slows down. I enter a zone of concentration that last hours longer than I can concentrate on any other activity. Even though my left arm is doing most of the work and I am often for hours...