As I go on, the size of the canvases I work with grows with my confidence.

I really like the way this turned out.

I would really be overjoyed if someone bought this, and I’m hesitant to say why I painted it. I don’t want to attach a negative story with a beautiful painting, but let me tell it like this:

A friend gave me the bottle of wine when she visited. We had a falling out. I was very hurt by it. But with the disappointments that inevitably visit us in our lives, somehow we have to learn from them – to make them into something valuable. I was angry and hurt when I started this painting, and all of that was gone when I finished it. It’s a beautiful, striking painting. I feel like I turned the anger, disappointment, and hurt into beauty.  The pride I feel in this is directly proportional to the pain I felt in its inspiration.

It might match your kitchen and other “wine art”. I don’t like to repeat what others have done in the way of wine bottles.  And I don’t want the negativity of why I started it to be in your kitchen. Rather, perhaps it can serve as a model of what we can do when we have to wrestle with the difficulties in our lives, and what may be remembered of the experience of turning something negative into something beautiful.

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Title: A Bottle of Penfolds with Two Empty Chairs, 22 x 33 in.

Completed October, 2005

Price: $800

Paper prints (13 x 19 in.): $55.00

Giclee on canvas prints (22 x 33 in): $155.00

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