AGAPE

This painting emanates from a deeply personal life experience that resulted in grief and loss. It was raw. Significantly messy. And particularly painful. The experience left me utterly broken and shattered. I am happy to report that I am in a good place now.

On the flip side, this was a gift, because it taught me something so powerful that it informed and strengthened my own life. This experience revealed the surprising depths of my own humility, integrity and the ability to endure calamity and hardship. Even more surprisingly to me, is the beauty I discovered in one's own brokenness as I set about healing and rebuilding.

My true inspiration comes from reflecting on all the good that has overcome what was meant for bad. People often need metaphors and objects to understand the art of healing. In repairing things that have broken, we actually create something more unique, beautiful and resilient.

Thankfully, I have made a come back from a wipe out. I have risen above the hurt and the loss, with no after taste of bitterness or resentment. Instead, I extend my hand of forgiveness.

I am thankful that I am able to have access to these positive emotions now and refer to them as the source of my inspiration to create art.

The painting has a thriving texture of thickly applied oil paint. Painted with a combination of hog brushes and palette knives. It has an expressive energy that is bursting to get out.

Framed in a substantial, solid black tray frame.