What immediately captured me in this painting were the woman’s penetrating eyes. The distance of her arm from herface and the seriousness of her expression felt like barriers, keeping me out of the pretty, hopeful cloudscape in the background. I felt as though there was something deep and sexual and intense about this woman but that it would be hard to get close to her and I didn’t know if I’d ever be able to get as close as I would like. The painting has layers. At first glance, the painting is this pretty ethereal floating place but there is this determined serious complex look on this fiery red haired woman’s face. What came to me was a floral complex with a spicy side, A muguet with an exotic edge. It has spicy complexity and depth and character. The first three words I wrote in the margin of my notes were “real nice girl.”