It’s amazing how much wisdom I gain from my children. My son is an artist who focuses more on abstract painting and yet his work tells very vivid stories.

In my own practice, I choose a more narrative style, with flourishes of abstraction woven in. When I’m painting, I smear the extra paint on my brushes to blank canvases which I squirt with water so the color will mingle and pool. This is how I get interesting textures and colors for my backgrounds.

One day, I had done this to a 5×7″ canvas when I was working with black and white and a little bit of magenta. My son saw the canvas after the color dried and was impressed with it as it is. I kept it for a long time, over a year, in a place I could see it. And I began to see ghosts in it, and this fit in with my ideas on benevolent ghosts. Now I have manipulated it a bit and finished it as a narrative abstract.

What do you think?

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