Etretat Update
Etretat - the painting - resides in Tennessee - with one of my favorite collectors. I had an email from the gentleman this weekend, 9/28/13, assuring me that he was still smitten with the work. It was so nice to hear from him and nicer yet - that he was enjoying the piece!This painting was completed in my studio and is the result of a plein air painting trip to Normandy in 2006. I used a palette knife, it is oil on canvas and the dimensions are 30" x 40". It is the last painting I sold before the economy took a nose dive. I would have held onto this one, but my cottage is too small, the ceilings are too low, it needed a proper home, and it found one.
As I was painting Etretat I fell in love with it. When I fall in love with a painting, I tend to slow down the painting process ---- the truth is I begin to have a relationship with the work and start to experience premature separation anxiety. I would go into an altered state of conciousness every session, and when I do this, I am working entirely out of the right brain - I don't think, I create. This doesn't happen with every painting, when it does - - - euphoria!
There is an inner peace that follows the completion of a work well done!
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