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"Magnolia Celebration II" is the second of a series of 3 oil paintings. Magnolias are for me a messenger sent by Summer telling me not to give up - that the seemingly endless winter really is gone. I paint them each spring with as much joy as I felt the first time I saw them. Please note: The watermark "fine art america" will not appear in the final print.

As artists we are often asked what inspires us. I've always found this a difficult question, as the answer is infinite. My range of subject matter has always been varied from realistic portraits to completely abstract acrylics. I get bored easily and will change subjects regularly. Not until recently however, did I discover that in fact my subject matter is secondary to what truly inspires me: texture. Not the texture of the actual objects or of my subject matter but the texture of the mediums that I work in. I will become overwhelmed with the feel of pencil on toothy paper, of painting in acrylics with my hands, of a hard edge of pigment on feather-soft watercolor paper. I will be lost in my mediums often for weeks or months at...