Art is for me, without a doubt, the most important thing that I can partake in daily. Painting is a need. It allows me to explore and express life. It helps  me to feel connected to the source. Art is something that teaches me- it is like a fountain of youth that flows through me and refreshes me. It’s like inviting the unknown to come in and help me create my picture. It’s rocky and vulnerable and inexplicable- very often I don’t have a plan or a reason for what I am doing, besides that ever present goal of deepening my connection with nature and life and elegantly expressing it.