Painting is an opportunity to focus on the beauty of the world.  The easel becomes a window — a place to attend to light, color, shadow, and atmosphere as it is revealed in the moment — and meet it with appreciation.  It is both grounding and uplifting.  Painting also serves as a place to comprehend others’ experience — an expression, the placement of objects or the arrangement of personal spaces.  Finally, painting is a place to meet the kindness and generosity of fellow artists.

Mary Perona