Jubilee Canvas Print

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In a swirl of movement, a dancer envelopes herself in joyful red.

Not for nothing is this artwork entitled Jubilee, celebrating the joy and movement and happiness and abandon of dance in the southwest desert – a place we generally do not associate with a dance performance.

But this is not a dance performance, one set before an audience in a musical hall, patrons who have spent a significant amount for a ticket and expect a top performance from a performing dancer.

This is a moment of spontaneity and creativity from a young woman who does not know that she is being watched, but who in a moment of freedom and exuberance swirls around, the sheer cloth around her body swirling with the movement, and exults in the sheer physicality of the movement, in her youth, in her future, in the joy of the presence.

As we all know, not all of us are dancers, feeling clumsy when we step this way and that, and self-conscious when people in the room watch us and secretly (so...

I am a fine art painter who creates representational images celebrating light, life, and color. A commercial illustrator for more than 20 years, I have been painting for most of my life, and in the last 13 years have focused exclusively on fine art. I celebrate images that invite the viewer to step into the artwork and experience a sense of joy, peace, freedom, encouragement, meditation, and thought. There's a lot of angry art out there, as well as a lot of shallow pop. I choose to use the abilities and experience I have to promote beauty and goodness.