The search for beauty, truth and the universality of being human, (as long as one stays open, curious and positive) inevitably leads to a silver lining.
Through the act of trying to make good paintings, which involves an idea and enough familiarity with the materials at hand to be able to bring the materials into a visually compelling state of being determines whether I succeeded or not.
Joseph Campbell said that the artist/painter is an alchemist. Observing something closely, getting down to its essence and then re-presenting the idea, turning it into gold, giving the viewer a possible path to get through a moment, a day, possibly a life.
I am drawn to the little things. “Life is every breath, every cup of tea, every flower”.