Dayton, WA
$65.00
Title
Wild Child
Artist
Steve Henderson
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
Childhood should be an idyllic time of play, exploration, imagination, creativity, and adventure.
It isn’t always so, we recognize as adults. But we know that it should be, and for that reason, when we see the exuberant innocence of a child, we smile, our hearts gladdened by something that is good and right and true. Children remind us that the world is a much bigger, and more beautiful, place than we think.
The artwork, Wild Child, captures this exuberance, this innocence, this joy and exploration and adventure as a little girl races up the path from the sea to her home, a bright piece of blue cloth waving happily in the breeze behind her.
Did she find the cloth on the beach, and she is running to the ones who love her in the house to tell them about her treasure? Or did she snatch the cloth, earlier, off the outside clothesline, and she has been pretending to be a mighty, beautiful queen of the ocean with it?
Her story is one that the viewer is invited to create and be a part of, as he or she is encouraged to join the child on the path in that mad race to the house. Do you remember times like this? Times when your intent was so strong in your mind, your purpose so clear, your joy so bright, that nothing else mattered? As you ran, you literally flew, wings on your feet like those on the feet of the child.
Wild Child is an encouragement to us that these do not have to be times of the past, all our childlike wonder squashed by the cares of the adult world’s anxieties and obligations. Somewhere within all of us is still the innocence and heart of a child – a wild child – and we need only fly down the path to adventure and hope.
(The setting for Wild Child is the historic Hughes House on the Oregon Coast.)
Featured in 31 Fine Art America groups.
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July 11th, 2018
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Jeff Burgess 16 Days Ago
Seattle, Wa - United States
Just a WOW from me. This is so colorful and dramatic. L/F
Christopher James 16 Days Ago
Port Orange, FL - United States
One of your peers nominated this image in the 1000 views Groups nominated images by your fellow artist in the Special Features #13 promotion discussion. Please visit and pass on the love to another artist.
Beverly Guilliams 17 Days Ago
Longview, WA - United States
Blessings over your work...............v./f./tweet
Christopher James 18 Days Ago
Port Orange, FL - United States
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group l/f/p
Honolulu, HI - United States
This is so beautiful. Blending of colors is certainly your forte. Would love to watch you paint.
Waynesboro, PA - United States
This is wonderful! Though I grew up on a farm in Western NY, I certainly connect with the feelings it evokes. We grew up encouraged to have the imagination and adventures available and I think I instilled that in my children...and am so happy when the include me in their "adventures"! I love your description..spot on! l/f
Steve Henderson replied:
Thank you, Suzanne, for taking the time to experience the visual and the written. Happy that it evoked such positive memories.
Mississauga, ON - Canada
Beautiful painting, the colors are incredible. And the child adds so much to the painting
Middleboro, MA - United States
Of course I love your paintings, but what I love most about them is the thoughts and feelings that they provoke! Thank you Steve! l/f
Leeds, ME - United States
Congratulations!! This beautiful image has been selected to be featured for the week in the “Art for Ever with You” Group Home Page. You are welcome to add a preview of this featured image to the group’s discussion post titled “2018 August: Stunning Group Featured Images and Thank-you’s” for a permanent display within the group, to share this achievement with others. If the activity is allowed, your image will also be posted to our group Google+ page. Thank you for your participation in the group! ~Jan (August 17, 2018)
Steve Henderson replied:
Thank you, Jan, for featuring the artwork, Wild Child, in the Fine Art America group, Art Forever with You. I am honored and grateful.
Calgary, AB - Canada
Excellent composition, rich,deep colors and brush marks! Like the title! Very attractive piece of art! L/F
Steve Henderson replied:
Thank you, Marta! There is much joy in the placement of brush marks -- a small one here, a textured one there -- and the image transforms.
Iola, WI - United States
Your excellence in your submission of this work is worthy of special recognition, and I am seeing to it, that this happens in the WFS group. I am so happy to have you as an active member of our family of friends and fine artists, who support one another by comments, likes, faves, sharing, etc. Thanks for all your efforts to make our group so special by having a fine artist like yourself among many other fine artists that make our group so special.
Steve Henderson replied:
Thank you, Randy -- it is an honor to be part of the Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery group.
Wildwood Crest, NJ - United States
Oh I love the story this tells! Beautiful detail and colors!
Steve Henderson replied:
I am so glad, Diane -- that's what paintings (can) do -- tell a story, and invite the viewer to be part of that story.
Burlington, NJ - United States
Congratulations, your creative and unique art work is Featured in the "Out Of The Ordinary 1 A Day" group! l/f/pin
Western, IL - United States
Congratulations! Your marvelous art has been featured on the Home Page of the ABC Group. This art has been selected from the ABC Group's T IS FOR TRANQUILITY themed week. You are invited to add this to the features archive discussions and in another discussion in ABC Group!
Steve Henderson replied:
Thank you, Pamela, for this wonderful honor! That Wild Child would be chosen to be on the home page of the Fine Art America group, ABC, for Tranquility, makes me very happy indeed. There is much that is beautiful and tranquil about childhood and innocence. Were we as adults to meditate upon this, and try to incorporate it into our lives, then the world would look like a very different place.
Redmond, WA - United States
Congratulations Steve, your outstanding artwork has been featured on the leading page of “Impressionism” group! Feel free to add it to the featured art archive and the catalogs in the group’s discussions. Excellent work! Lori
Steve Henderson replied:
Thank you, Lori, for featuring the artwork, Wild Child, on the leading page of the Fine Art America Group, Impressionism. I am honored.
North Port, FL - United States
Captivating landscape. One can only wonder what she is imagining as she drags the sheet behind her.
Steve Henderson replied:
That's exactly it, Sharon -- what is the story? Representational art invites the viewer to step into the painting and make it theirs.
Titusville, FL - United States
Congratulations on your feature in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
Greenville, SC - United States
great colors....the pink really stands out in contrast...liked and featured 'Art Gallery'
Steve Henderson replied:
Thank you, Larry. I love working with color -- there is so much of it in the world around us. It' well worth celebrating!
St. Paul, MN - United States
Sweet, beautiful, whimsical and engaging. Thank you!
Steve Henderson replied:
There is a bit of whimsy, isn't there? But then again, the antics of children bring a smile to the faces of adults.
Halifax, NS - Canada
Congratulations! Your skillful and interesting painting has been FEATURED on our homepage. Well done!
Steve Henderson replied:
Thank you, John, for featuring the artwork, Wild Child, in the Fine Art America group, Painting the Old Way in Oil, Acrylic, and Watercolor. That old way -- it's a good way!
Bareggio - Italy
I love the cloth the little girl brings: it's like a promise of future.
Steve Henderson replied:
I like that, Claudio -- you have brought extra dimension and hope to the story. May the little girl's future be bright indeed.
Alta Loma, CA - United States
This is very beautiful. I love what you wrote about it too. This is how I always wanted to live, like this girl in the painting. Art has allowed me to. Thank you sincerely for your work!! L/F
Steve Henderson replied:
Thank you Danielle -- I am glad that you like the story as well. This, too, is how I want to live -- with the wisdom of both child and adult. We need both, to complete the loop.
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