The Joy of the Eye of the Artist

​

The Joy of the Eye of the Artist is a series in which I express the joy that for me is to be alive and with this awareness and fullness to be able to immerse myself in this wonderful experience called life.

​

That joy is produced by knowing that everything I see around me is an inspiration to transmute what I see, what I hear and what I perceive with all my senses, coming out rhythmically during the process of the act of creating.

​

In that glorious act, when I am working on my painting, I enter a point of creative silence and immense communion full of enjoyment with myself.

​

This series began when I first went to live and study in Florence, Italy, in 1989. Then, over the years, I continued to expand this series as I lived and experienced the different cultures of the countries I have lived in around the world. .

​

I can't say that any of my series are finished. None of these will be finished while I continue in the extraordinary joy of being fully alive and in the intimate and extraordinary joy of creating my art.

​

Mari Gamarra