"Turning Point"

16 x 20

I don't want to be melodramatic, but one of my babies is leaving. Not my real kids. One of my paintings. Sometimes you feel that way as an artist. Getting paintings sold is kind of the point. Most times it's an easy process, but there are some paintings that you really like and when someone expresses interest in one of those paintings you have to pause and think. This paintings is one of those. I have a lot of memories of State Road 46 and the drive from Titusville to Lake Harney. This subject is seemingly a very simple, flat part of Florida, but there is so much there. It's constantly changing based on the water levels. It has distance. Vastness.

This painting is called "Turning Point", not for some deeper meaning. Actually, my Dad use to own and fly a Cessna 182. When he saw this painting, he explained to me that this stand of palms in the middle of the St. Johns River Valley was used by pilots flying a pattern at Dunn Airpark in Titusville. When you got to the palms you turned back to the airport. Turning Point.

How much longer will you be able to look out across this vastness and see nothing but nature?

"Turning Point" is going to a nice home in Jacksonville. A couple who already has a painting of mine wants another, and they love this one. Repeat customers are the best. It has to mean you must be doing something right. So you pack up the painting and ship it off because you realize that if someone else can enjoy something you created, its a good thing to let it go.

Thanks for looking.