Outstanding work. God bless.

Stunning image!

Wow, This is really beautiful, outstanding art work.

Such vibrant beautiful colours. Amazing!! xx

Fantastically well done !

This would make a great addition to my garden it is so fabulous Carol. An amazing image with such vitality and movement and what super colors you have used. I love how you are making these with the inks. Outstanding work.

Beautiful Carol.

So gorgeous!

Applause its wonderful!!

awesome wild fire flower

Magnificent work! This is something I could stare at for hours and days...well done!!!

Wildly awesome natural flow. The emotion is very present in this piece Carol and a wonderful companion work with goddess!

STUNNING CAROL, JUST STUNNING!!!!!!!!!!

Carol, I know I promised to re-do a few comments, and do others I never did; but I want to catch up with the most recent of your uploads, right now, since I fall behind so often (due to the length of my comments, and time spent with your images). So forgive me for loose ends. I didn't mean to leave them that way...and I'll try to go back and re-finish the comments I didn't finish. But let me do these now, as they're the most recent...

First, your poem has a gentle fairy tale feeling, inviting us to be one of those souls who look past the literal and see that flowers can be cosmic, if we're open to them. One can see this as a flower, but also as many flowers; or, better, as a kind of flower-spirit, which doesn't adhere to the usual definition of "single flower," etc. And I can see how this relates to the previous painting; but this is also a painting to itself, and it's prodigious. Getting back, the poem has subtle and delightful rhyme schemes, again, with a childlike or fairy tale quality; which ties the poetic lines together. (That's one of the things rhyme does, after all.) The poem's an invitation to us, to give-into the child in us, but also to the ancient spirit in us; and find these flowers right under our noses. An old jewish mystical saying: Miracles are under your feet, if you only bother to look...So it's a fine evocation to your image, as your poems are, overall. And it's delightful.

(If you're interested, there's one typo---in case you want to correct it, should potential buyers see this: It's in the 7th line from the bottom: "pr feel the beauty"---I assume you meant to type "OR feel the beauty". A tiny point, I know; but as you sell, I thought you might want to know about it.) Onto the image...

The painting starts at a root, a gnarled green stalk met by some pink as well; and it opens into a flowering which doesn't only have petals, but leaves, waves, energies, and those amazing cellular nodules which have emerged so often in your alcohol-based works. They're totally you, but still very new. They're like coagulations of energy, so intense that they form centers. They're very organic, inexplicable, and wholly right. (This is organic of the soul.) (The garden of the soul.) And they give strong 'punctuation' to the intense flow of lines. And they tend to have lots of varied colors, lights and darks woven into them, packed into a small space. Everything intensifies in them---maybe they're seeds, germ cells, places from which the petals bloom...who knows...

The petals and leaves burgeon out into a flame of purples and pinks and reds. Your lines here are in a constant state of outward 'rush', as they move upward and to the sides. You've turned plant life into energies. (Or found the energies in plant life.) And your movement from shadowed bottoms to highlighted tops is powerful and even 'victorious' Victorious in the sense that they emerge triumphally, very affirmatively. And your contrasts of darks with lighter hues makes for visual flame. Or spiritual flame. This is a very passionate painting.

The edges break off into spindly vessels of green (left) and pinks (right) which remind us of blood vessels or tributaries or villi, etc. They're very organic, and seem to be letting off the energies of the main plant. And the surroundings---as with all your surroundings---are not quiet backgrounds: They're organically alive, filled with grain and more cells, and what appears to be a kind of organic parchment. It's beautiful.

A billowing flaming vision, but with so much compact intensity---in those cellular seed-like sections as well as in the tangle of leaves and petals---that it's very touchable and visceral. Your work is at a great mature peak, no matter what style you work in; and that's very apparent in this alchohol style, because, by right, it should have dissembled your work (due to its slippy-slidy nature); but instead it's added some very vital new forms to it, and given it yet another set of splendid gowns to wear. A beautiful energy-packed blooming and explosive image.

Thanks so much for your wonderful comment, Mark. As always, your in-depth vision of my art, as well as my prose, are always so appreciated. And I always learn so much from what you observe. This painting started out very different, and evolved and exploded into the final work. That's the thing with alcohol ink painting, it just kind of evolves as it progresses. I usually reach a point in the middle of a painting where I say ... this one is going nowhere, and then I tell myself to just keep going and see what develops. And when it was finished, it kind of surprised me. I imagined seeing this huge wild flower growing in some cosmic organic garden and that inspired the prose. These ink paintings are always a wild experience, from start to finish. Also, thanks for finding the typo, which I corrected.