"Yellow Sun Butterflies and Waterfall

acrylic on canvas

16"x20"

"Odilon's Monarch" acrylic on canvas 24"x18"

"Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy"

Disneyland Plaque

This is the world that I strive to capture. The feeling of yesterday, with it's treasure of savored moments. Of slow travel by lazy river boat where time doesn't stand still, instead it becomes absorbed one honey sweet drop at a time.

There is a joy that comes from sitting in the same spot, viewing the same image for long enough that one experiences the different shifts in light. I like to portray this as a play of shadows and movement all lumped together as if a dozen stills of the same view were taken minutes apart and then layered one on top of the other.

When we have enough of these still-life images stored away in our being, tomorrow begins.

And fantasy. I recently saw a painting of an airplane with a caption that read "Tomorrow is the fantasy we make it through today for." Webster's says fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting. This is the land of all possibility where we don't filter out our childlike wonder, where sunlight and butterflies are one.