Burning Desire 2019

Rose Freymuth-Frazier made this painting, ‘Burning Desire,’ with oil on canvas; I can almost smell the linseed. I love to imagine the artist standing there, brush in hand, smearing those strokes of warm yellows and oranges across the canvas, like a kind of alchemist turning base emotions into gold. There's something about the glow of the sunset that feels both fleeting and eternal. It reminds me of Turner, actually, with the way the light seems to dissolve everything into pure feeling. See how the brushstrokes kind of blend together, creating this hazy atmosphere? It's like the artist is inviting us to lose ourselves in the moment, to forget about the world outside and just be present. We painters, we’re all just standing on each other's shoulders, trying to reach a little higher, see a little further, and capture a little bit more of that ineffable beauty.