embracing what you don't like

i shared in post the other day that I don't like how flowers keep turning up in my paintings. It started after I read Margaret Olley's autobiography (which I loved, an australian painter). So Sunday without any caution I embraced what I don't like and just painted and here is what came out.



i am putting it out into the world. I don't want to be someone who paints flowers but then sometimes what we resist becomes bigger. So I am not resisting anymore.


so then my dislike for what feels like teenage self involvement started to be brought out in my painting.



you can't help but laugh, who knows where I will go now.