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We could all use a little more reverie in our lives.

Daydreaming, fanciful musing, gently pensive meditation – reverie doesn’t involve analysis and deep concentration. Rather, it is a light footed mental dance, a faerie frolic through the woodlands of our minds, a time of thinking pleasant, desirable, impossible things as if they could be true.

It has nothing to do with anything we’ve heard in the “news,” because nothing there is pleasant, desirable, or something that we wish were true. When we are in a state of reverie, there is a smile on our face and in our heart; our bodies are relaxed; our entire being is calm and at peace.

The woman in the artwork, Reverie, is in such a state. Wrapped in a towel, she has just emerged from the bath – a most delightful bath, the kind that lasts for what seems like hours and allows you to submerge your body in water that is warm, so perfectly warm – and she is moving slowly, easily through her space.

It is t...

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.