Joy of Being

A new commission to start of this new year. What a blessing this work is.
Today I spent the morning in Kirstenbosch Gardens and started painting only at lunch time.

Something in this painting feels like it is a magical place, a city, something mysterious. This interests me. This makes me just flow with the work, helps me to connect with the mystery that is this plant.

I feel happy with how the painting is coming on, especially because I can feel that I am touching that special place now - the place of wonder, of the magnificence and ridiculously bright, shameless joy of nature.