Sunset

12" x 24" oil on aluminum

Wallflowers gallery

Canby, Oregon

I painted this late last summer on a trip to our beautiful Lincoln city. I was delivering some work to Earthworks gallery there and attending the Robert Gamblin seminar at Sitka. The class was called expressionistic landscape. He called paint " emotions in a tube." I was overwhelmed and didn't want to stop painting at the end of class, so I brought my easel back to my room with me and sat on the ground next to the steps down to the beach. I painted until the sun went down, and still I wanted more. I scratched into the paint. I used colors I had never used before. I gave myself permission.

It was a wonderful experience.