Chickens on parade! I seem to have a fascination with all things celebratory right now.

Allow me to share a memory from my grade 6 art class where we did an acrylic painting of a forest. I basically reached a point in the painting where I thought it looked bad, felt icky feelings and gave up on it. I remember seeing it hung up on the walls of the school and just feelings like that’s not finished….. and then I never really attempted an acrylic painting since.

And let me tell you I went through a bit of a journey with this new painting probably the same journey I was having in grade 6. This time though I got through the icky awful feelings (it is truly amazing how awful it can feel to be challenging yourself sometimes) and made it to the end. And it feels great. I feel as though I have made a breakthrough with my work.

Are there subjects and topics that you keep coming back to in your work?