A Canvas That Celebrates Being Alive

The Joy of Abstract Expression

There are paintings that ask you to be quiet, and then there are paintings that invite you to dance. This luminous work belongs entirely to the latter. The moment you lay eyes on it, something lifts — and that is a rare, precious gift from any artist to the world.

"You do not need to understand it. You only need to feel it — and feeling it is enough."

Sweeping arcs of vivid lime and acid green surge across a clean white canvas like ribbons of joy, carrying the eye forward with irresistible momentum. Around them, generous pools of warm peach and burnt orange nestle beside deep, velvety purples and soft teals — colours drawn straight from a summer garden at its most abundant. Sky-blue circles and flowing blob shapes drift through the composition like cheerful clouds, while fine brown and black lines weave everything together, threading connection through every corner of the canvas.

What makes this work so wonderfully democratic is that everyone — regardless of age or background — can find their own story inside it. A child sees a wild, colourful celebration. A dreamer sees interconnected worlds. A scientist sees the beautiful chaos of a living system. Each reading is equally true, and equally welcome.

This is art that asks nothing of you but your open eyes and your willingness to feel something bright. In that generosity, it becomes one of the most quietly radical things a painting can be: genuinely, wholeheartedly joyful.

 

: ) Smile [003]

"A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy,

the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered,

and the smile that lights on the first born babe,

and assures it of a mother's love. "

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

: ) Smile [002]

“A smile happens in a flash,

but its memory can last a lifetime.”

: ) Smile [001]

" What  Sunshine  is  to  Flowers,

Smiles  are  to  Humanity. "

Random Pattern [18]

"In between goals is a thing called life,

 that has to be lived and enjoyed."

Sid Caesar

Random Pattern [17]

"Life consists not in holding good cards

but in playing those you hold well."

Josh Billings

Random Pattern [16]

"People where you live," the little prince said,

"grow five thousand roses in one garden...

yet they don't find what they're looking for..."

"They don't find it," I answered.

"And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..."

"Of course," I answered.

And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind.

You have to look with the heart."

"And when you're consoled (everyone is eventually consoled),

you'll be glad you've known me.

You'll always be my friend.

You'll feel like laughing with me.

And you'll open your windows sometimes just for the fun of it...

And your friends will be amazed to see you laughing

while you're looking up at the sky.

Then you'll tell them, 'Yes, it's the stars.

They always make me laugh!"

~The Little Prince

~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Random Pattern [15]

"One of the best things about paintings

is their silence

which prompts reflection

and random reverie. "

Mark Stevens

Random Pattern [14]

"The kind of relatedness to the world

may be noble or trivial,

but even being related to the basest kind of pattern

is immensely preferable

to being alone."

Erich Fromm

Random Pattern [13]

"Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness,

we never really experience the universe directly,

we just experience our consciousness of the universe,

our perception of it,

so right, our only universe is perception."

Alan Moore

Random Pattern [12]

"Existence is random.

Has no pattern save what we imagine

after staring at it for too long.

No meaning save what we choose to impose."

Alan Moore

Random Pattern [11]

"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience,

and our aesthetic enjoyment is

recognition of the pattern"

Alfred North Whitehead

Random Pattern [10]

"Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most."

Al Capp

Random Pattern [9]

“Life forms illogical patterns.

It is haphazard and full of beauties

which I try to catch as they fly by,

for who knows whether any of them will ever return?”

Margot Fonteyn

Random Pattern [8]

"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability.

The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."

Bruce Lee

Random Pattern [7]

"The mark of our time is its revulsion

against imposed patterns."

Marshall McLuhan

Random Pattern [6]

"Continuing to cling to the patterns you know

inhibits your ability to discover what you don't know.”

Eric Allenbaugh

Random Pattern [5]

"When patterns are broken,

new worlds emerge."

Random Pattern [4]

“Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns

which have been woven of old.

No, build from your own youthful feeling,

your own groping thought

and your own flowering perception.”

Lotte Lehmann

Random Pattern [3]

"Creativity is the ability to introduce order

into the randomness of nature. "

Eric Hoffer