Lullaby

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I took the photo that inspired this painting on the same visit to the Russian River Rose Company that beget my latest “big” painting: “Sherose.” This is the third in a series of smaller paintings (15” square) that I have for fill-in, background, don’t-feel-like-taking-it-seriously kind of painting.

I painted this one, very intermittently, on low-energy evenings, after finishing a painting, and even on my towel at Poipu Beach. It has been set aside for weeks (months?) at a time – only to be remembered when I was going through my portfolio. At one point I thought that I’d not given it enough focus and attention such that it really wasn’t worth really finishing. But I’ve learned almost all of what I’ve learned by finishing every painting – so I carried on. Someone asked recently how I can do what I do and what came out of my mouth applies to this painting. I said “I’m patient and determined.”

I have an every-other-Wednesday conference call with two remarkable women: Maralyn Cale and Lyn Allen. We talk about our lives, our work and the ways in which we and our work are evolving in response to the world. Our conversations are unlike any other I have – and an enormous amount of my self is sourced through them. It was on one of these calls that Maralyn told of singing a luluby to one of her clients who had lived through a lot of trauma. I had been working on this painting the morning of that call and it came to me that “Luluby” would be the perfect name for it.

2017 – 2019 – 15”x15” – Watercolor on paper