Acrylic
Canvas
48” x 60”
Acrylic on Canvas
surreal: Surreal, Visionary, Landscape
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This surreal scene captures a dragonfly gliding above the south end of Lake Tahoe, with South Lake shimmering in the background. The water stretches across the foreground in deep, glassy blues, reflecting hints of light and motion. Along the horizon, the golden, fluid contours of the south shore mountains rise like living sculptures, their forms twisting and flowing as if carved from wind and memory.
Above, an abstract cloudscape drifts through the sky—geometric, block-like shapes in turquoise, violet, and indigo, layered in perspective like fragments of thought suspended in the air. They bring a sense of structure to the ethereal, balancing the organic landscape below.
The dragonfly dominates the upper left, its translucent wings catching the light, body bristling with delicate spines, and presence both graceful and formidable. Thin, looping violet lines weave through the scene, connecting the dragonfly to water, mountain, and cloud like threads of energy, suggesting an unseen harmony between nature, earth and sky.
Tags: Dragonfly, South Lake Tahoe, Renewal, Transformation, Wisdom, Connection
I painted this piece live in front of my friend Joe’s tattoo shop in South Lake Tahoe, letting the energy of the street and the lake seep into every brushstroke. The dragonfly came to me easily because I had Insects in my imagination since I had already painted Bees and because I love dragonfly’s…. they are also a symbol of connection, transformation and an opening between worlds. And since I was in South Lake, it only seemed perfect to have it flying over the lake. I imagined the sky not with traditional clouds, but as an abstract cloudscape—blocks of color and shape drifting like thoughts above the horizon. Painting it in that moment, surrounded by the hum of life in South Lake, felt like capturing both the stillness and movement that make this place so alive.
