The Heart Behind the Art

I don’t paint mountains to show a mountain, nor streams to show a stream.

My hope is to paint a feeling of connection; that moment when the world grows quiet, when burdens loosen their grip,
when a wandering heart remembers where it belongs.

If you pause before one of my paintings and hear the stream, feel the sun,
the coolness of the shade, or wish to travel a path made only of paint, then something beautiful has happened.

For a brief moment, the canvas has become a doorway.

And if a painting leaves my studio and finds a place in your home, my hope is not that you admire it.

My hope is that it welcomes you.

So when someone says, while viewing my art:

"I want to be right there."

I smile.

Because that was always my intention.

Not to paint a place.

But to create a place someone might want to be.

— Freda

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