Working on some small paintings, for a Christmas show. I seem to be drawn to the theme of lone girls. Thinking about this more and observing that many of my paintings have young girls ( many of them me as a little girl) I realized I am painting the aloneness I felt as kid. Funny how I often paint stuff and have no idea what I am doing, and then sometime later I understand some part of it. I have do know that for me I am often troubled by not knowing what it is that I am painting. At first I really have no idea, it's just what I seem to be attracted to. So I do it and often give myself a hard time for the subject matter I am choosing. And then these glimpses into what lies beneath. The little girls on the surface could be about my own world with is surrounded my young girls, having an eleven year old. The girls in the paintings have change over time, I began with me as a young girl and now I am painting other young girl that are not me. These young girls seem powerful to me. Even if they are alone, the have a powerful presence.
Here is my real life girl and my big boy.
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