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Eve is ready for a home

 

Eve, 24"x30", acrylic on flat panel, $1300 plus s&h to the first asking nicely, which you can do via my website or with a sweet note to me. (PSST!! wanna learn to paint something like Eve, check out "Intuitive Painting," my online class with Kara Bullock.)

Painting concepts are showing up these days at the oddest times. Typically I find my imagery inside my dreams, but there's been a shift. Lately ideas are coming direct to me during waking hours. This one showed up as I was rolling my yoga mat one icy cold snowy day in January. There was a bear and an apple tree, but not the visual, just a knowing. I had a sensation of the weight of the tree - the branches, greenery and fruit - filled the cavity of the bear's head, and the trunk trickled down the right hand edge. There was plenty of blue sky and sunshine I could feel but not really see. 

I set out to explore this in paint, and two completely different pieces emerged. This is the most amazing part of my painting process - I know it will happen every time and yet I still am awed. An idea shows up and then I channel her into being. And there isn't always a one to one relationship between the idea and the artwork - an idea can birth multiple pieces.

It's fascinating in that I show up to work each day, never knowing where I will wander, but trusting it will teach me something. And at the end of the adventure, I have a lovely painting to show for it.

Eve can be viewed up close, in a room setting, and even purchased over on my website.  Thanks for the privilege of sharing my art with you.

Also, returning collectors can use the coupon code "COLLECTOR10" for 10% off new purchases.

Thanks so much for your interest in my artwork,
All my best, warmly, Kim
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