Burst of Light

While walking to the studio yesterday 

the sun came out suddenly. 

I was floored by how colorful the early spring landscape

is when washed in that burst of light. 

"Burst of Light" 

12 x 9 

I was inspired by reading this interview in

Painting Perceptions 

with 

Martha Armstrong.

Her landscape paintings take my breath away! 

"Adam's tractor tracks"

“Seeing—and the painting that comes from seeing—

can only be one way at a particular moment. 

Some paintings are done in a day; some have pieces of many days. 

To get what you see, you cannot paint what you see. 

It’s a battle between what you see and what you know. 

You take what you need to make a painting. 

The landscape has everything and nothing to do with the painting.”

Martha Armstrong