Fireworks Tank Top

Fireworks have always captured my imagination. When my daughter was about 7 we went to Washington D.C. and one of our journeys was to a Smithsonian exhibit of Whistler. In addition to his portrait of mom, there was another painting titled Nocturne in Black and Gold that stayed with me. Although this painting isn't remotely like his, it was with an eye looking back to that inspiration that brought me here.

My husband, the artist Richard Wandell, passed away on December 5, 2022. Following is his biography. “A painting is never really finished, you just stop painting.” Richard Wandell was awed by art and its magical beauty for a long time and one day, after many years of lying dormant, he began to paint. It was 1994 and he had waited long enough. Now was the time he had to become what he should have been all along; he had to paint. Richard was completely self taught. He made an attempt to paint way back in 1978 but was so terrible he laid the brushes down. Then again in 1986 but oil paints were not for him. Then in 1994 he dipped his brush into acrylic paints and never looked back. When Richard Wandell painted he was inspired...