You'd think that after two years of a pandemic, I'd have a large collection of new paintings to show but I don't. Much of my pandemic time was spent reading and researching as I recovered from long term virus inflammation. I'm still having problems but I am off my crutches and cane and I am now able to do some physical therapy everyday again so that is good. Any time that I am in a lot of pain, I find that the pain significantly affects my ability to be creative and definitely affects my ability to sit still long enough to paint. Actually, this sort of pain really drains me of all energy very quickly but, even putting that aside, the pain is extremely distracting which makes concentration and creativity nearly impossible. That being said, I have occasionally worked on two paintings, on and off (mostly off), during this time period though. First, I feel the need to point out that these are just small digital files of these rather large mixed media paintings. I n
