As the world slowly opens up, so too does my artistic inspiration and the flurry of work in my studio. Probably summer sun and temperatures are helping too!

But looking back, the isolation has produced some good new turns as well, things I want to continue to explore. Abstractions are now a constant part of my creative imagination and I know I’ll be doing more in that direction. As well, combining some of these tangents with the style I had already used for years, is producing great ideas and promising results.

As an artist long ago told me, my landscapes are really just abstractions with horizon lines, I’m aware this is a place I’ve been for longer than I realized.

What came for me out of the last year and a half was a resolve to be completely myself.  To discover who I really am at the core, and to live out of that internal knowing, rather than others’ outward expectations.  My hope is that it isn’t just me, and that others will have made this shift as well.

From the looks of social media, we can come to a very different conclusion. The vitriol and outright hatred I see on platforms these last several months is disheartening to say the least.  The narrowness of what is acceptable thought can be frightening. Mostly I think people are bored, angry, and tired of what we’ve all just been through. 

I remember what Dr. Edith Eger said in her book “The Choice”.  When she arrived at Auschwitz with her family and waited in line for Dr. Mengele to decide their fates, her mother said to her, “Remember, no one can take away from you what you’ve put in your mind.”  As much as the social media hacks might want to take it or in some way have power over it, no one has sovereignty over my mind but me.

And so, I am free to go deeper, into my inner world, into my imagination, into my creativity, into who I fully am without judgment from others or myself. I am so hopeful that others are heading the same way and we will have much to share that is positive, upward and forward looking, and full of hope for where we are going.

I love that my art provides such a joyful way to express that hope and freedom.

As an artist long ago told me, my landscapes are really just abstractions with horizon lines, I’m aware this is a place I’ve been for longer than I realized.

What came for me out of the last year and a half was a resolve to be completely myself.  To discover who I really am at the core, and to live out of that internal knowing, rather than others’ outward expectations.  My hope is that it isn’t just me, and that others will have made this shift as well.

From the looks of social media, we can come to a very different conclusion. The vitriol and outright hatred I see on platforms these last several months is disheartening to say the least.  The narrowness of what is acceptable thought can be frightening. Mostly I think people are bored, angry, and tired of what we’ve all just been through. 

I remember what Dr. Edith Eger said in her book “The Choice”.  When she arrived at Auschwitz with her family and waited in line for Dr. Mengele to decide their fates, her mother said to her, “Remember, no one can take away from you what you’ve put in your mind.”  As much as the social media hacks might want to take it or in some way have power over it, no one has sovereignty over my mind but me.

And so, I am free to go deeper, into my inner world, into my imagination, into my creativity, into who I fully am without judgment from others or myself. I am so hopeful that others are heading the same way and we will have much to share that is positive, upward and forward looking, and full of hope for where we are going.

I love that my art provides such a joyful way to express that hope and freedom.

Read my Latest Watercolour Blog Titled Freedom and Loving Where I Am..