"Essence of Change," 42" x 42"

Oil on Canvas.

When the spring started, Darlene decided to change, she needed to paint the vibrant ponds. The movement represented the growth and need to see that things can be happy, if even for just a moment in time. We are all living through some very difficult times with everything going on. We are witnessing change. It may not all be happy changes, so we must persevere and hope for some solution to what we are passing through in this time in history.

Canadian artist Darlene Winfield's style is impressionistic while at times leaning into semi-abstract. It is created with the use of brush, palette knife, and mixed media when called for. The paintings are completed in layers with dramatic strokes offset by quiet places within the painting. The atmospheric quality and depth of the painting are most important to her. She hopes the viewer will enter into the world she created on the canvas. The history and longevity of oil painting have been important to her. After discovering the buttery texture, smell, and feeling oil paint gave her as she dipped her brushes into it she has not looked back.