Pondering the Rose Garden

16"x20" oil on canvas mounted on board (Raymar)

I hope you simply have a happy Thursday.

"Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal to what we are given by the senses."
- Hannah Arendt


Today's painting is "Pondering the Rose Garden". Here it is - finally finished...and you've gotten to see the process from beginning to end! That quote just about sums up why I paint.....I feel my words are insufficient to describe the incredible things that we take in through our senses...so I represent those memories visually...hopefully to make a connection with the viewer and evoke similar memories. A walk through a lush garden, an abundance of flowers, colors surrounding me, fragrance enveloping me. I relish the visual memory to evoke that "sense of place" that I try to represent in my paintings. I love to use the textures of oil paint to connect with the tactile senses - again, to hit that "memory recall" of the viewers' experience of being in a certain place. Click on the image for a close up of the palette knife work that I find so exciting.

I do welcome requests for commissions. Please contact me at roxannesteed@gmail.com for a price list per size.



and last news of the day...got several paintings varnished today & hopefully I'll have several ready to ship to their new homes soon!