Life in the Tropics, an oil painting by Jenny Floravita

This is the time of year where I try to assess when I’d like for my body of work to go. This next year, starting with the fall season, I think I will be honing in on: tropical flowers, island cottage paintings inspired by the Waimea Plantation Cottages and perhaps coastal California scenes.

As a working artist I often feel torn within the different bodies of work that I create. All have a similar theme, being the good life that is represented by life in the islands. Working in both oil and watercolor also presents challenges in terms of picking with medium to focus a body of work within…not to mention my hand created, reverse painted glass chandeliers which require a tremendous amount of work.

The painting above is another one of my Walmea Plantation Cottage paintings and it is titled Life in the Islands. If I do a series based on these small island cottage paintings then the works will be larger.