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My paintings are imagined places to spiritually recharge in. Seeking to receive and create a mindset of only positive thoughts and ideas, I move to my favorite reggae and reggae rock music, deeply absorbing the sounds and messaging as I paint. The result is an elevated experience that feels importantly joyful and life-giving. 

I use large canvases that I can physically engage with. The sizes offer me space to move freely within them as they present like other bodies or as extensions of my own. Vivid, high contrasting colors help me pronounce light as a source of positive energy, while close-up views keep me personally involved in understanding what I am painting during the entire process and help me to stay grounded in the beauty of where I am standing. These intentional perspectives help to make viewing more of a first-hand experience, offering an invitation to examine and experience the light as it affects the environment and creates mood and encouraging a type of hope and optimism about what can be imagined is beyond the foreground. 

Palm trees are biblical subject matter for me, symbolizing all of nature and creation. The imagery creates a relaxed and comforting chaos through the natural connections, symmetry, patterns, and disorder as it becomes a bridge to another, higher, spiritual place. In the moments of creating these paintings and beyond their completion, there is only this one, loved and whole version of me that feels an immersive happiness and comfort. 

The year 2025 was life-changing and challenging. The overwhelming friction created a "no where left to go but up" sentiment that resulted in my being more closely mindful of the need to find joy, trust myself, and protect my peace. I began creating my most important work energetically and spiritually; work that was very different from the previously darker, depth-seeking art-making that tried to excavate perplexities and raise unsolvable questions rather than offer me answers or truths. That work only created more tension for me to seek and so, for multiple decades as an artist, I was in a cycle of chasing tension. 

My new work is light-hearted and spiritually energetic, offering me the most fulfillment, joy, and positivity that I've ever had as an artist with more than 30 years of painting experience. How quickly the mind shift happened tells me how close and immediately available happiness, kindness, joy, truth, and comfort are as a choice we make happen, if not that these feelings are also inherently natural. 

I hope my paintings bring abundant light + love to you. 

                                           - Thea