Finding what we need...

Modern Nature

(this is my lucky feather)

A few weeks ago I came out from under a rock of cloudy and grey. Out from a fog that enveloped my sense of being in the world and made me take a look at many things with new eyes. As things were slowly sorting out in my grown up world Mother Nature came through with an amazingly warm-sun-filled-birds-singing-children-laughing-and-swinging-kind-of-days that filled me with hope and happiness. On that day as I was working in our garden thinking about happenstance and the lightness of letting go and I came across three beautiful feathers. I'm pretty sure they are from a woodpecker but they were so tiny and so beautiful that I knew right away I wanted to paint them. I wanted to create a piece out of the feeling I experienced that day. The painting picture above is what evolved over the past couple of weeks. It is encaustic and mixed media on a 1.75" thick piece of oak that I've been saving for something special. It's a combination of cloudy and grey, color and energy, luck and letting go. Thanks for reading...