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This painting dreamed itself into life.
It's just the sort of place a Suzy would like to meander, and I can almost smell those sweetresiny plants brushing against my legs, and hear the ringing songs of the late afternoon bell-birds. It makes me happy that my paintbrushes found their way here.
This is another shopscrapwood painting. I rather do love these little jewel paintings, small but bursting with life.

About a year ago now, something wonderful happened. I'd been going through an increasingly challenging time with my health, which has been a major teacher in my life, and was being brought to my knees by the experience. When my dear friend and partner Fred encouraged me to take up art, I was touched by an excitement that was like a thousand smiles singing inside me! I've always been an adventurous one,,, artistic, musical, and a great lover of spontaneous play. For much of my life, I've made my living as a luthier, specializing in unusual, made-up violin family instruments, as well as a whole host of flutes, harps, marimbas, tile-a-phones, etc. etc. But until last year, I'd never spent much time with a paintbrush, or let myself be...