"I'd love to paint with the ocean waves breaking around me." said the studio artist. Why is the painting on the easel an abstraction? Everything starts as abstraction before shaped into realism. Or, is this a subtle form of surrealism? Could this painting be subtitled, Lost at Sea?

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST: ABSTRACTION EXPERIENCES REALISM
• Oil painting on 36" x 24" Cradled Birch Wood Panel.
• Signed by the artist.