This last year has had us focused on the interiority of our lives, taking heart in small things, appreciating what we have. It has been a year of quiet transformation. We’ve been both metaphorically and in real-time settling into new space, small heroics that have transformed us; we’ve learned things. Can I hear a little heck yeah we did that?!

In my painting practice this last year I have been absorbed in my love of abstraction but I had a couple of surprising episodes of working into more realistic representations of things that move me visually. While this is surprising I think it came from a desire to look, to notice more carefully the details that draw me in. This painting, a work in progress, lies in-between. An ode, abstractly, to my little vermillion reading chair. Here’s to a love of noticing small things that sometimes get taken for nothing.