Seeing beauty is the gift we use to connect to the wonder of being alive.  It's a skill worth cultivating.  Painting, and looking at paintings is like that.  The colors, the marks, the look of the paint; when they come together in that magical way, we're put in touch with the way we like to feel about things. We all bring different background experiences to our perceptions, but in the act of making personal closure on simple harmonies we spark the enduring, pleasurable connections to a work of art. To paint well is an ongoing obsession that requires continual practice, and study, in the attempt to capture something that is always just out of reach.  I suppose that’s the attraction in doing it - as well as in seeing it.