Northwest Michigan Regional
Juried Exhibition of Michigan Fine Art
January 29–April 16, 2006
Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI

I was pleased that my painting, Meditation II, was accepted into this exhibit. The show was juried by Dennis Nawrocki, Professor of Art at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. I finished this piece in the spring of 2005. The painting is oil on masonite panel and measures 48" x 16".

I combined panels from two different paintings in this piece and have created another "sister" painting with the remaining panels, (Meditation III). I had planned to segment the two paintings in this way when I began them. The panels showing the trees have a lot of surface sanding going on. I love to layer paint and then sand back into the piece, revealing all sorts of texture and pattern beneath. I often times sand back in using a very coarse sandpaper before the paint has fully dried. Then I can pull and drag the paint across the surface and around contours in the piece.