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I love playing with the consistency of a thick, many-layered painted canvas, and in this case, one painted with acrylics and fluid paint. The brightly-colored butterfly, at home in its natural environment, cheerfully flies over a whipped-up pink surface, completely at ease in its natural environment.

Both South Africa, where I was born, and Arizona, where I live, inform my love of nature and it's brilliant, luminous colors. When I paint, be it in acrylics, watercolors, inks or mixed media, I abandon myself to the intuitive process and enter a state of uncensored discovery. I am simply present in the moment, open to surprises and trusting of whatever unfolds. It is a journey into mystery, a dream without doors. I am also an author of more than a dozen books, and when I write or paint, that vague, intuitive, unexpected, barely verbalized sense of possibility, becomes the catalyst to creating and exploring new forms. I call myself a Possibilitiest. ~ Ellen...