After Covid and the struggle of trying to get my art back into the world again, I realized that I needed to return to the basics… to make art with paint.

So I upgraded my watercolor palette; purchased a whole new set of paints and played with them for awhile. Life happened some more. And then I went to a wedding in Windermere where a tour of the local art galleries led me to the work of David Langevin. I loved the Seussical feel of his “infamous” tree paintings and how intense the colours were, and was inspired to give acrylics another try (I’d been introduced to them in high school and had moments of dabbling afterwards but was convinced they weren’t for me).

I took dozens of tree photos during my summer trip through B.C. with the thought that I would be inspired to make tree paintings… but that didn’t happen. Instead, I became frustrated. Eventually I realized that I wanted (needed) to paint in my own style, no matter what the medium. So I began to learn a different way to paint and created techniques to make the resulting images in a style that felt like home to me. I’m still working out the bugs but I feel close to where I need to be.