Summer Escape, 2025

Original 8x10 watercolor painting on paper with a one inch border surrounding the image.

Our collective memories of childhood embody freedom, fun and escape from the adult world of worry. This image, inspired by my granddaughter’s, illustrates the feeling’s place of floating into a vast horizon of carefree possibilities.The atmosphere in this painting is washed in bright sunlight and carries notes of complimentary yellow / purple and orange and blue colors, maintain a vibrant hue in the work. On completing this painting, the compostion and the execution of the strokes reminded me of work that I had done as an illustrator in the early 1990’s. The subject matter has mass appeal and is very soft in it’s presentation to the viewer.