Description
My friend Karen has a weekend home in Nevada City, CA. Our mutual friend Vicki and I spent a weekend with Karen there in July of 2009. After a scary brush with possible catastrophe involving Karen’s spaniel, George, Vicki and a culvert of rushing water – still a bit wet and dirty – Karen and I visited this blueberry farm. I’d never seen blueberries farmed in large scale like this. The bright summer sun illuminated the various colors the berries go through on the way to our cereal bowls and pie plates – much like the grapes my brother Mike grows that I’ve painted. A wonderful new collector with whom I’d shared the image asked me to paint this for his wife for Christmas 2009. It was an ambitious undertaking to get it done to be framed and shipped to Oregon in time. As I painted it, I really appreciated connecting it with them, knowing where it was going. It was such joy. As I was finishing up, my dear friend Brenda’s son Quincy played Moonlight Sonata on the piano over the phone to me. I was blown away – he’s quite a musical prodigy. I e-mailed them the painting when it was done and Quincy named it. Vicki says it’s apt as she sees lots of dance-like movement. I continue to be fed by all that others see in these paintings.
December 2009
