Year 9, I was taught Space was an empty void. This made no sense since you can look up and see the stars and the Moon.

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Now we know that from the first space walk, scientists knew Space had a smell. Burnt metal. Ionized dust particles clung to the astronauts’ suits. Dust from where? Gravitational forces are impacting predicted comet and star transits unexpectedly. Forces from where?

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With the Space telescopes we have a tiny insight into a seemingly creative and a destructive process. We can now see the beauty of the Nebulae, one of my favorite subjects to begin a painting composition. The current theory of a Nebulae is that the reflection of a star’s light reflecting off of particles of gases is captured by the telescope’s imaging system. The gas determines the color. For now I just want to capture their beauty. Science has been frequently reinterpreted.

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The Nebulae are the inspiration for the ‘Nebula Celestial Bouquet’ Series.