My second painting on this beautiful sunny Christmas Day ! I worked last night and came home this morning at 7 a.m. However, the beauty of the season just keeps me awake all through this morning with my easel in front of me and with Handel's Messiah on the air again. Looking out of the bedroom window , I just could not resist the intense emotion this plain view in front of me had evoked: a gentleman from our Balmoral Bay neighbourhood passed by with his dog , and the few scrawny looking elm trees on our front yard casting their long shadows across the snow with neighbours' homes cast in dark shadow across the street. Yet , despite the plainness of the view and despite the bone chill coldness of the air, the intense Christmas morning sunshine just instantaneously transfigured everything in sight into something almost magical. Is not it true that a painter's job is always to search and find beauty in everything so familiarly ordinary and yet be able to conjure up something more significant beyond their unassuming physical presence. In today's world where violence and hatred are becoming more of frequent happenings and nerve racking uncertainty of our future seems to be plaguing our vision of a future, I feel it so important to be able to create a shared sense of love , peace and beauty that will navigate us to a haven where our heart and mind can safely anchor
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