When You Look at My Painting on Your Wall

Woman with Passionflower & Dove

When I sell a painting to you, I have created a form of relationship with you whether I know you or not.  You chose my painting.  Maybe it spoke to you in some way.  Maybe you simply liked the colors. Or if you commissioned a painting specifically for you and your space, you chose me to create it, Maybe you admired my previous work.  Regardless, my painting will be hung on your wall.  For whatever reason you have invited me into your home in a sense.   

When you look at my painting on your wall, see not only the image depicted, the brushstrokes, and the varying shades of color.  Feel my imagination and inspiration leading the brush. Appreciate the time and focus  I devoted to each and every brushstroke - thousands of them.  Feel my spirit and energy which flowed into this piece.

There on the wall is a little piece of me and even after I am gone, possibly it may still be displayed on a wall in someone’s home as a memory that I was here on this earth, and that I was doing what I was meant to be doing - sharing my humble talent with the world in this form.  

In this painting, I am trying to convey to you all of the beauty I gather in my mind when I look out at this amazing world - the way things connect and flow, the growth and abundance.  I receive all of these gifts from nature on a daily basis, and this is my way of sharing them.

The music I listened to, the sounds of the birds outside my studio window, the beating of my heart are all woven in there.  Can you hear it? My memories, my experiences, my sadness and joy - whatever I was feeling is expressed in the colors, the brushstrokes.

This painting on your wall couldn’t have been created by anyone else at any time or anywhere.  It was created by me in one moment in time for you to gaze at and share an understanding between the two of us.  

Thanks for reading,

Arianne

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