Today from my home studio I paint portraits, pet portraits and still life oil paintings. My paintings are mostly representational or narrative, but sometimes I enjoy painting something more spontaneous or whimsical.
I prefer to work from live settings using photographs as references. However, photos and combinations of photos are fine, I am flexible. I even create out of my imagination sometimes.
Lately I have been fascinated with still life paintings (objects) inspired by my genealogy research and ancestral stories. Finding more about an ancestor’s story is like finding gold. I decided to leave my descendants ancestral stories, that I knew about, in the form of a painting with a brief story attached to the back. I call it a Legacy Painting.