Barb painted this for her friends restaurant . Barb adores palms. She would love to live in a place where they grew naturally. Not that they don’t grow here, they actually grow quite well in Victoria, but she wants it to average about 20°C higher. In this painting, it is all about the palms, the warm breeze and warm sand.

Barb’s has an amazing way of using brief strokes with lots of colour to portray turbulence or mevement in blocks of sky or water and, in some paintings, backgrounds as well. You can see this in the sky in Snaggly Clouds and again in the sky in Three Pink Flowers #1. You can see this same technique in the vibrant orange background behind the Doctor Bird .

In “Palms in the Breeze”, Barb’s treatment of water and sky is wild and turbulent. This is the most impressionistic of her works to date. Her intent is to invoke a feeling of heat and movement. This is a very passionate painting. It’s the first of about eight Jamaican paintings that emerged in rapid succession in the fall of 2006 and she was feeling inspired! Her “wild and turbulent” energy translated well to the sky and water and palm leaves.