Art Appreciation

Well, today at work we found one of the "misplaced" paintings for our upcoming show in the gallery, and I must say, I've fallen DESPERATELY in love with Gregory Packard's "Lower Lake" or whatever he named it. I know I work in an Art Gallery, but I've never seen ANYTHING to compare to the magnificence of this piece! If artwork wasn't so expensive, I'd probably buy the thing, but I'm poor and need to save up for school, so that will never happen...I was seriously looking at it for at least 30 minutes though, finding more things that I loved about it. The pink in the mountains, the outline of the lake, how the rocks popped right out at you like they were real, how you can see every brush stroke and it doesn't bother you. You can look at it from the same angle several times and see something completely different each time. It's amazing. I know I keep ranting about this painting, but it was amazingly mesmerizing and it just took my breath away. And to tell you the truth, I really didn't like Greg's style of artwork that I'd seen previously, but THIS piece, this piece has truly sucked me into the painting, brought me into my Wonderland, my Oz, my Neverland. How absolutely AMAZING!!!!!!!! Thank you Greg for bringing me out of the dark and into the light!!!!!!!