Sun Bath

"When my mare died, it took me a long time to bring myself to paint her. When I did, though, I remembered that she lived for that summer day when she could canter way out into the field and stand there, bathed in sunlight.

"This started out as a simple color study for a larger painting but there's just such simple beauty and purity in the image of a horse enjoying a summer's day. It doesn't have to be my horse. I wanted to get the brilliance of the sun on those days when it's so bright that things look soft when you see them. The sun seems to melt all colors into each other. I blended the edges to make it easy on your eye."