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This large-scale painting started out as a commission that would say and emote: YES! I began this commission as I was preparing myself for a month in India. The word, “YES!” (which you can still search out in the now background) was taken over by a swirl of colors as the excitement of travel and spiritual seeking took me into a rainbow trans. I decided to let the channel stay clear and not force the image in it’s original direction, so the YES! painting emerged on a different canvas on the other side of India. I'm grateful that plans never turn out how you think, and paintings have a life of their own. Starting with a YES! and morphing into rainbows that seek and share the abundance of effervescent light.

I have never seen artmaking as a choice, but rather as a necessary and obvious part of living. What I am creating is always changing, but my commitment to creativity is an inevitable constant. The way I see it, the process of artmaking helps to integrate the endless information coming into the brain with the already present and always working imagination. It helps to process past experiences and vision future ones, all the while giving my mind, body and spirit a pathway to actually BE in the present moment of creation. As I paint, I notice my breathing slows down. I enter a zone of concentration that last hours longer than I can concentrate on any other activity. Even though my left arm is doing most of the work and I am often for hours...