Description

This painting is about feeling immersed in an atmosphere of peace, but also standing on sure footing. It is a view I saw from the old city of San Juan, Puerto Rico.  I looked out at the clouds and was struck by how they looked with the endless horizon.  The clouds and water were so amorphous and beautiful, yet I was standing on solid ground looking out at them.  I felt anchored and grounded, but felt an infinite sense of peace flowing into me.

I painted it in this photorealistic style so you could feel a sense of what I felt when I was standing there.  I loved painting the water as it gently lapped toward the shore.  The variety of textures I had to capture was really fun.  In the very bottom right corner you can see a tiny bit of the old city wall that borders the oldest section of San Juan.  To me this grounded the image even more, even if the context was only known to me.