Paintings 2009

All these paintings are acrylics on canvas in a pretty small size, mostly 8×10″, 6×6″, 8×8″ and a few other odd sizes. Pretty much all of them have sold [if one is available - it is noted in the description when you click on the thumbnail] I had been playing with the child-oriented theme since my Nashville period and this style has become more and more my own since moving to New York in 2008. People often ask me why i paint children and/or if there’s a special reason for this.
I think it’s really just the childlike state that I like to portray and keep reminding myself and others of. I worked in a daycare while living in Nashville and became an aunt to two beautiful little nieces over the past 3 years, which has definitely inspired me, but beyond that I think there was just a natural progression and feeling of “right” when I allowed myself to take a more and more whimsical and simplistic approach to painting.