Remembering Barbara Arteta

I never intended my art or this blog to be about sadness. In fact, and I have said this many times, it seems like the sun is always shining and it's a very nice day in my art.

I can't expect that some untoward events won't find themselves seeping into what I paint. That is certainly the case with this poor woman, Barbara Arteta, who sat across the aisle from me on the train to Florida a few weeks ago. Some time, during the night, she was presumably thrown off the train and she died. In the weeks after this tragic event, I began to have small memories of sounds that I overheard that night, of what I now believe were her last minutes on the train.

I did not know her, but somehow there is a connection that I can't or won't move away from. So, I made these paintings knowing that she was on my mind.



Certainty
Oil: 12" x 12"
2010







Landscape for Barbara Arteta
Oil Painting: 12" x 12"
2010








Blue Garden
Oil Painting: 12" x 12"
2010