Wimpy, full of pink, and lacking in character is exactly how this canvas art piece started. There is a beautiful magazine clipping that I’ve had for years – tropical pink background, soft creamy pink bowl, filled with exotic purple, pink, and yellow flowers. That was the inspiration, the starting point for this mixed media canvas. [...]

How do you increase your art knowledge and techniques? Both blindly daring and following instructions will lead towards new knowledge – it’s all about trying.

Do we allow our backgrounds to also shape our future and hold us back or do we use them to propel us forward?

Am I perhaps learning how to keep that happy feeling going about longer, as I allow each moment to be its own fruitful, sweet endeavour, instead of hoarding off the buffet table until I can’t move? Perhaps.