What it's all about

The painting in the corner of this cheery kitchen 

scene is mine.  Sadly I've lost the original

photo image of the work, so I'll have to go

back and ask my hosts for permission to 

photograph it again. But see a small image

I retrieved below to get the sense of it.

Morning at the artist's table

36 x 12 inches

Acrylic on canvas

Barbara Muir © 2008

We have had rain for more than a week, and
I have been working hard painting.  Today
a friend invited me out for a walk with the dogs,
and I was so inspired by the landscape on our
walk.  In fact it was a cityscape of houses,
green grass, flower gardens and happy people
basking in the first warm sunny day in a week.

Sam and I were invited to dinner (dogs included)
and we visited with friends who are also collectors
of my work.  What a pleasure to see my paintings
in place -- doing what they should do, being part
of a room, a house, a family -- cheering up
a corner, or adding to the good feeling already
present.  And at the root of this peculiar profession
we are in, that is certainly what it's all about.

Have a going-back-to-the-pleasure-of-painting day