Ripples of Delight 36 × 60 Abstract Acrylic on Canvas

Ripples of Delight
36 × 60
Abstract Acrylic on Canvas
Collection: Mending, In Practice

This piece began as something else entirely.

The canvas once held a painting from my earliest abstract collection. Recently I painted over it, hoping to transform it into something new, but what emerged didn’t feel right. The work sat unresolved until a warm spring day when the pull to paint — simply to make beauty — became impossible to ignore.

I carried the canvas outside into the bright North Carolina sunlight and began again.

A layer of white softened the past beneath it, leaving the earlier textures visible but no longer dominant. I mixed a deep blue-leaning violet from magenta and indigo and laid it across the surface before introducing something entirely new to my practice: paint rollers pulled from the shed. Fields of magenta, fern green, and Carolina blue moved quickly across the canvas, creating broad sweeps of color and movement.

Over these layers, I added gestural lines of gold, silver, and iridescent pearl, allowing light to catch and travel across the surface.

While making this piece, I realized something about healing. Even after difficult seasons, even after fear and uncertainty, there can still be a visceral pull toward beauty. Not as decoration, but as instinct.

A way of saying yes to life again.

Ripples of Delight reflects that moment — when the desire to create returns, and joy begins moving outward in widening circles.

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