“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.” Pablo Picasso
“David’s Sky” was inspired by a friend’s encouragement and query if I would ever create art again. My sky paintings had touched David in the past, and his question in May 2013, was the impetus for my return to art. I was very disillusioned with the “job” I had and was longing to return to what moved my soul….Lack of courage kept me from changing until David’s prompting question.
When I started this acrylic painting, I found myself creating a breakthrough painting that illuminated the clearing of the sky after a storm at sunset. The symbolism of closing one door and opening another was so apparent to me. I thought it was fitting that I would name this painting, “David’s Sky.”
The painting is now in David’s collection, a gift purchased by David’s wife, my friend Karen.
Paintings by Sandra Yocum 