Excellent abstract my friend, amazing colors and design, amazing work! Congratulations!

Excellent work!

Very nice, I love abstract works!

superb with much impact Mandi beautifully worked my friend!!

Fabulous work on this one Mandi, it has a very dramatic and bold appearance.

Beautiful done abstract.

Cool, it keeps reminding me of the gnarled roots of a tree trunk or such. Nice!

Very original.Great work.

Looks menacing

Beautiful abstract, the more I look, I can see several things, outstanding work!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wonderfully done !

something grows until the chaos is replaced by order...

Very special! Thanks for comments on my last !!!

Mandi I have been called away, so I'll pick up later in the evening or night. (Sorry.) But at least I've been here over an hor, so you know I'm spending time on these. I'll end with this for now because it's a wholly physical painting, and one of several I was so happy to see. This is watercolor, yet you use it almost like oil, or at least thick acrylic. Or gouache. Love the thickness and 'whoosh-ness' of it. (Don't look up "whooshness" in your art dictionary, btw, I don't think you'll find it. "Whooshification" maybe? "Whooshanschaung?") It's a big confluence of rivers of energy, all tangling in a center. In that center are cellular nodules, big rotaries, sloshy centers for meetings, hideaways, etc. You're showing real expressionist energies in your strong linear sweeps (your brushwork), the mixes of grays with reds with pinks and those strong whites, often in one 'stroke'. Well, I don't know if you're making those strokes these with a single brush, or several smaller brushstrokes painted next to each other; but it has the feeling of one big bold whoosh of paint after the next, and it's vital and filled with contrast. There are energies punching their way "out," too---some very boldly (forms in the lower left are fine examples). And some nice semi-monotonal areas as well. As well as more naked canvas. I like that you're allowing pure white canvas to show forth, without apology or visual explanation. Man, I like that. These types of compositions can be very challenging, because as one goes deeper into each 'area' of such a piece, they find potentials for whole works in just one segment of the painting. And I assume that, as you study these, you think, "I could go back and redo that section, repaint that, I wish I'd used more white there, more red there..." (Etc.) It's what a number of abstract painters experience, certainly. But you've been doing abstracts for a long time; so this comes to us not as an early effort but as an empowered sloshing whooshing full 'vision' of yours, and it's very vital and powerful. De Kooning comes to mind, Helen Frankenthaler, Jackson Pollack...It's very vital, Mandi, and I hope you do lots of explorations like these, and over and over; pieces like this are a natural extension of the digital abstracts you did for so long; and when translated to physical paint, they feel very much at home. And a final word on "abstract" if I haven't already said it in this gallery: It should mean as much to get at an essence as to move 'away' from anything. In a work like this, this isn't "cerebral," as "abstract" too often suggests; but rather "of essences". Many of your abstracts are of the latter kind, quite filled with emotional power. And you seem, in pieces like this, in love with the struggle of the brush; you let it take you, let it slosh and shout to you (or for you), and you let it shove you along its swooping waterfalls. That's the sign of a painter. Mandi, I have to stop now, I'll be back for more hopefully tonight. But good luck on your show! I wish you many more (assuming you survive the first---first shows have known to be real challenges, which can be a very polite way to put it, and which you probably know well by now). I'm very excited for you, and I hope people see what you have in you, your intricate technique and sense of formal language, and the deep passions with which you express it all. I'll be back soon...