From my photography of still life images of personal objects, I created a series of paintings some abstracted and others realistic. This series was inspired by the huge upheaval of downsising; moving to a new suburb and reestablishing a new studio space. The image of Toaster & Jug was first painted realistically and then was painted over to create an abstracted image.
My influence for these paintings was the
The phrase "Write what you know" but I used it as "Paint what you know "