Starry Night Tank Top

1998. Deep into the dark starry night, we gaze into the past. It wasn't that long ago but it feels like forever that this sleepy little town told stories. Now all that's left to tell the tale is a sky filled with the wonder of what might have been. After all, the sky won't lie.

I felt quite random when I created this universe. I wondered what the Greeks would do with such a night. I didn't, at least intentionally, place an angel, dragon, monkey, old man or whatever else you can imagine on what was a blank piece of white. They just appeared and then I may have enhanced them here and there. C'est la vie!

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...