New Work

"Buy a ticket" 30 x 40 oil on canvas by Kerry Steele

In between working on commissions I always like to have something else to work on. All three commissions were for floral abstracts and love how relaxing those are to paint. I like to paint something with a different feel simultaneously to avoid a sort of "tunnel vision" and staleness to either style. It keeps me awake and focused.  This 30 x 40 oil on canvas titled "Buy a ticket" was inspired by the retelling of this joke in Eat, pray, love by Elizabeth Gilbert. 

“There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint, begging, "Dear saint-please, please, please...give me the grace to win the lottery." This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue comes to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust, "My son-please, please, please...buy a ticket."