You can almost hear the birds singing, and see that the air was so clean in the fresh springtime. The feeling that she has control over this one thing, the surface of a painting, inspires her to keep creating. Also, that it's such a challenge and requires all of her concentration and intuition. The more I learn, the more I realize how little I really know. She prefers the medium of pastels simply because she feels they have an immediacy of application that enable her to preserve that initial impulse.
Pastel colors are rich and brilliant and can be applied with a quick, instinctive spirit.
Something Victoria has surely conquered. Warm Summer Afternoon captures the lushness of the Fort River in the town of Amherst, Massachusetts. It's quite a trek, what with easel, chair, pastels, drawing board, etc. But the relaxing space is just like a paradise, and makes it very easy to record the warm feelings of the sunlight and the birds and the breeze. But, don't try to talk to her after 10 at night because she can't even think, much less talk.