Jessie Benton Evans paintings

Landscapes, acrylics. "When we returned to our home state, Arizona, we rented a cottage in the small town of Cave Creek, north of Phoenix, which overlooked a wide desert wash, north to mountains edging the Tonto National Forest. Thrilled to be back, beginning a new life, I raced outside at dawn as a storm was receding. The clouds parted and the sun rose in the center. To me, it was a symbol of rebirth and hope. Later, I realized I had unconsciously stylized the clouds into a pelvis shape. Colors seem like music to me. I wanted the gradating colors at the horizon to be like a chord, or hymn."