I paint how it feels

“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than
the subtlety of the senses and understanding.”
-Sir Francis Bacon

I am finding it a bit hard to focus with the time change and the shifting daylight patterns. There is such a chill in the air. All of nature is subtley shifting, whispering change, as the sky is filled with varying spectrums of color. I spoke last time about the beauty of the fall colors - how inspiring it is to see those colors in full force. In the little time that has passed, many of those same colors have faded, changed to brown, or vanished completely through the force of wind, rain and cold. Constant change is a daily occurrence. The “subtlety of nature” as Sir Francis Bacon mentions, “is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding”. I am drinking in the subtlety of nature in my own quiet ways - watching, breathing, looking, absorbing - and working on incorporating that understanding into my pieces as I paint an expression of how it feels, not how it looks.

"Change of Seasons" 30" x 40" work on canvas

“I don’t paint how it looks, I paint how it feels.”-Robert Wade

Painting is available.

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