Standing before nature, looking, deciding on composition, observing the color of the sky and the manner in which it touches the horizon - this is where intuition speaks loudly - for it seems as if nature holds still for an instant, posing, giving the painter a moment to absorb these impressions of air, light, temperature, sound and the general feeling of color on the land. This happens on an intake of breath, inspiration, the senses are in a state of awe and what is being carried on the breeze might be the crispness of air or its quiet warmth, and the depth of shadow and patches of light. The land holds beauty, it is captured by the soul and in that moment of recognition, forever remembered.
