Plant Talk Spirit Room
Series
Painting
2023 - 2024
New painting project
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(title: My favorite plant Syl and her new friend Sid, from the series Plant Talk)
A few years ago I started writing a book (Adoptica) about my life as an adoptive child. My biological parents were painters. I started to paint, one of the few disciplines I always tiptoed around as an artist. Somehow it feels natural. Looking around in the studio my favorite plant Syl caught my eye. She is the ideal model, always there. I have learned that many contemporary painters, even now, keep training their skills by observing what’s there. The private sanctuary of home, and the studio.