"Joy Expanding" | 36" x 36" | Original Acrylic Painting (framed)

Joy Expanding
Harmonies Blooming Collection

Joy rarely arrives all at once. It begins somewhere small and quiet, then opens outward until it fills the whole room. I wanted this painting to capture that gentle unfolding.

As I worked, I scraped back and layered over, letting textures and earlier colors surface through the whites. I love the way those veiled passages give the piece its airiness, a sense that the bloom is still opening and the joy is still spreading beyond the frame.

Joy Expanding brings a luminous, uplifting presence to a space, equally graceful in a study with rich moulding and heritage tones or in a light-filled, pared-back room where its soft palette can glow. To me, it is a painting about the way happiness grows when we make room for it, and about the quiet abundance that comes from letting ourselves open.

Details
Acrylic on canvas
36" x 36" x 2"
Gold metal float frame
Signed lower left
2026