REFLECTIONS
By Susan Levenson
After my retirement from three art related careers, I began
painting in watercolors, something I had never done before.
I think the choice occurred because I love the freshness one
derives from the transparencies that form where the paper does the work and the
paint flows into one another.
Now that autumn has arrived, I watch the leaves turn and
float into the air like the world is ever changing. This is part of life today
and I feel that I am expressing its possibilities in my painting.
I love to paint. It allows me to lose myself into
consciousness for long stretches of time, which seem no more than a few
moments.
Painting allows a sense of accomplishment, where one paints
for the love of it, not for selling or competition, but only for something that
one owns into one’s self.
While on location in New Castle, NH, I saw three youngsters
fishing in a small inlet.
I painted this busy scene in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. I loved
the arrangement of pilings, the fishing architecture and the boat.
