![TR Colletta - Corona [2013]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7359/26183574563_3414dd6904_b.jpg)
“In the eighth grade my parents gave me a set of oil paints. A first attempt at this mysterious medium was rewarded an honourable mention at our community art fair. It was even exhibited with the big people’s paintings. That’s a dangerous compliment to offer a child, because ever since that ribbon, I have not put down my brushes. Any purpose beyond colour and composition that I choose to layer within a painting is not necessarily what an audience may read or feel. Each viewer holds his or her own personal relationship to an image. When recognition occurs, mutual gratitude results. As the Romantic poet, John Clare wrote, 'Language has not the power to speak what love indites, the soul lies buried in the ink that writes.' So too it is with paint."
See: www.trcolletta.com
[Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco & St. Helena - Oil on linen, 106.7 × 106.7 cm]