Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Evening Bouquet

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist.  We are collaborators in creation.

                                Pierre Teilhard de Charden

 This painting started with a photograph of only two sunflowers in a blue vase.  It just kept going and going!  I had looked at several other photos and was so touched by the beauty of each one that it just seemed logical to include bits and pieces of them into this one piece.  The quote from de Charden captures exactly how I felt while working.  This is not just my work but the work of many, many others ~ being an artist is being part of a magnificent team from the guy who stretches the canvas, to the woman who produces the paints, on and on until finally some collaborative effort is finally complete ~ or is it???