First Completed Painting of 2025
This painting has been in the works since Winter 2004. It has gestated for 21 years. Some pieces are like that.
Lessons I learned while making this work:
- Do the best I can with what I’ve got.
- Makes things right whenever possible – no matter how much time has passed.
- Have the courage to change the things I can.
- Never give up!
- Commit!
- Have fun.
- It’s my life – I don’t need permission to be myself.
- Dancing is good – every day.
This one is called:
Embrace
oil on canvas
36″ x 48″
Finished on February 6, 2025, 4:19 pm ET, Hudson Valley, New York
Details
Backward History of Embrace
Signing the painting! February 6th, 2025
Bold moves – Summer 2024
Working Summer 2024
Color feels weighty – Summer 2024
Dance before Paint – Cibo Matto – Flowers 6.27.22
Paint Process Video 6.17.2022 Painting to David Bowie – Holly Troy
The impulse to create – 2022
Dance before paint! Feed me to the Lions: Adam and the Ants – May 31, 2022
Commitment to Art in Two Minutes or Less – May 8, 2022
Dance before Paint! Madness by Bomb – 4.18.2022
New Moon Eclipse 2022 – Painting and wishes
Process on Painting – April 19, 2023
Making something out of something – Feb 2022
Working with what I’ve got – Feb 2022
Have a great day!
Holly Troy
February 7, 2025
Hudson Valley, NY
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I love painting and the idea of making things right no matter how much time has passed- both in art and otherwise.
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Yes – creating and making things right requires patience and trust. Practicing and experimenting – it’s ok. It’s ok. So much there is a not-knowing feeling, but it’s in the not-knowing and trusting that so much beauty arises.
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Thank you for sharing your process – this painting has such luminous presence- well done indeed!
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Thank you so much!
A lot has happened during the creation of this painting – including a marriage, divorce, a move to and from the southwestern United States, and the death of my mom.
This feels like a new beginning.
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