Paul- What I like about your painting of the young girl running into the waves is its capture of the instant of spontaneity, the exact moment of her shift in balance as she stops her headlong rush into the surf realizing it is rushing toward her. The shift captures a moment of tender awkwardness that even she doesn't realize so much as senses. Although not perhaps intentional, the painting also suggests-again with a sensing of the body more than active mental thought-a headlong rush towards life that is equally about to change her as it rushes towards her. The shift from girlhood to young womanhood? Perhaps. And, it is all captured with an incredible joie de vivre. -Sincerely, Patrick Madden, collector