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I started painting when I was 3 years old. I can remember loving to paint on my Grandmother's back porch and delighting in being called an artist by my family. Art classes were always my favorite classes in school. My first assignment in my first oil painting class when I was a senior in high school, was to set up a "still life" and paint it. On the table in front of me were various dusty bottles and waxed fruit and I knew immediately I just couldn't do it. I sat down, hung my head and thought "I just can't do that, what am I going to do?" I was looking down at my red loafers and just started drawing! I was fascinated by Dali's surrealistic paintings at the time which was the main influence for this, my first oil painting - a 5th Dimensional approach from the very beginning. So... the red loafer symbolizes high school and the white sneaker, grade school. The living tree symbolizes my growth and the dead tree all that I found not useful and had discarded. The "river of life" flows across the bottom of the painting, through the rough times symbolized by the dirty big city and then up the stairs ("path") into the light. Thirty eight years after I created this painting I saw the head of my guardian angel in the light! (I had been drawing just her face ever since I can remember.)
I then gave her a body - I figured she deserved that after all those years!
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