Dreams Reflecting on My Pond, 54" x 54"

Oil on Canvas.

"This pond is about dreaming as you look at a pond. As your dreams are magically transported to the surface by your imagination the pond will reflect from above. Perhaps your dreams will come true. It is all about the power within to believe. Perhaps you will follow a new path and the pond will be what you relate to as it changes beneath the surface and before your eyes. Often we can look at a painting and with our personal changes so too does a painting change. It is all in how we feel when we look at it from perspective!

Painting for me is a reflection of life. It is a part of me and I am not whole without it."

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.