Listening to World music while painting with headphones on inspired the Pathways to Joy series. Through listening to different rhythms, beats and instruments I discovered new pathways forming in my brain. I found a shift occurring within myself while painting to the music. The notes and rhythms became bold, playful and colorful brush strokes of expression. I would listen to the rhythms of the music and then choose a color. I would allow my body to move to the beat and paint what I felt the music was trying to express. My senses became heightened during this creative process and I just painted what I felt and saw in my minds eye.
The “Dot” becomes a language that adds additional vibrancy, life and movement to my painting. It pulsates with Life.
I paint from my imagination, from the music that is piped through my ears and is translated through my brain, then down through my heart and out from my hands onto the canvas. That is my creative process.