“Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you,
to make your soul grow".
Kurt Vonnegut
The Expansion of Colour (for Joe)
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchanged for it
Flourish (Watercolour, 42x30cm)
“Eliminate all negative emotions, anything that creates bad feelings and distracts from the project at hand. Clear it all away, and what’s left? The space for creativity pure and simple. That’s happiness”.
El Bosque de L’Amatxi (Oil paint, 80x100cm)
“I” am just a collection of particles that is arranged into this pattern, then will decompose and be available, all of its constituent parts, to nature, to reorganize into another pattern. To me, that is so exciting, and it makes me even more grateful to be part of that process”. “
Primeval Soup (Alcohol ink, 21×30 cm)
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change.”
Reencuentro de Vanessas (Watercolour crayons and ink, 15x21cm)
“All good things are wild and free.”
Mamá (Digital painting)
“The secret to living is giving”.
The Essence (Pencil, 45x63cm)
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
Shore (Watercolour 21x30cm)
“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old”.
Alfonso’s Poppy Fields (Digital painting)
“A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.”
Autumn Leaves (Watercolour, 30x42cm)
“The finest gifts are not “things,” but intangible offerings of the mind, heart, and spirit. Gifts like these may seem as fleeting as music — but like music they continue to resonate long after they are gone.”
Barrier Reef (Alcohol Ink 15x21cm)
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”