The Call Within

The Call Within is a Colorado landscape painting of the mountains above Dillon Reservoir in Frisco, Colorado, with traditional Italian marbling woven into the sky and water. A sailboat moves across the lake while wildflowers fill the foreground, creating a scene that feels both familiar and a little dreamlike. The painting was inspired by the idea that the call we spend so much time searching for is already inside of us. Like the heroine in so many of the stories we love, we may have to leave home, get a little lost, face our own dark forest, and follow the clues along the way before realizing that the wisdom, creativity, and truth we were looking for were within us all along. I created this piece as a reminder to listen for that inner call, trust your own journey, and follow what quietly moves you forward. Learn more about the call within found in modern myths like Moana and The Wizard of Oz.