the power of purple

I must admit to having a love affair with purple. Doesn't matter which form the lovely purple takes: deep moody purple, light and lively violet, subtle gray violet, or vivacious magenta violet, I love them all equally. Don't you?

When you paint the landscape purple is always there to great us. You don't have to look far. She is always there. She has a feel-good presence. Depending on whether purple/violet is warmer (leaning toward magenta) or cooler (leaning towards blue) she not only means different things, but works very differently in a painting.

You may think this sampling of my recent field paintings is red and orange, but instead it seems to be more about the versatility of purple.

True confessions: A life-long obsession, I wear purple and live with purple. I may have gone too far when recently I painted my bedroom purple, which adds to the living room being painted violet and I just realized that my bathroom that has magenta glazed with blue violet. (My patient, loving husband is learning to love purple.)