Me Time 2018

Carrie Graber's painting 'Me Time' offers a blissful retreat from the everyday. Imagine standing before a canvas, the light catching the bristles of your brush as you mix that perfect shade of turquoise for the pool. It's a color that invites you in, doesn't it? A shimmering expanse where worries dissolve like sugar in water. And then the ochre, those sun-drenched cacti basking in the desert heat. Graber is using the brush like a tool to record the moment and, with its light and shadow, to convey the feeling. I wonder what Graber was thinking as she painted this, maybe longing for her own 'Me Time' or maybe thinking about the California paintings of David Hockney? Either way, it's a scene ripe with possibilities, a personal oasis rendered with a playful touch, a conversation starter about how we all find our moments of peace.