The spirit of imagination and openness to let the Muses breathe through them is visible in their pieces. With a humorous touch, Annie Arroyo paints favorite artists Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, as her Muses, for she says, “their artwork speaks to me.”

Franne Demetrician describes the impulse to create, “as an unpredictable process, sometimes like a drizzle, sometimes like blinding light. It can come to me in my sleep, urging me to go to the studio and play with textures. A painting has a life of its own, as I add shapes, lines, and colors.”

I was struck by how all our talented creatives have studied in various professional art schools, taken individual art classes, and are always working on their craft, always perfecting their craft, with dedication and persistence, in a constant spiral of evolution. They teach us all how incredibly powerful we are, that we must take on something that inspires us, that we have the ability to learn to do “it”, and to do different things. In order to become that pilot we must first learn to fly the plane and practice our skills again and again, so that eventually we might soar to gracious heights.

Here the artwork in this show encourages me, and hopefully each viewer, to do difficult things, from that deep inner sense of value and worth, and just feel the happiness and joy as the process and journey unfold.