Maximum print image size is 42"x 48"

 

This is a family portrait. My husband, Mom, Dad, two sisters, their husbands, two nieces and one nephew are represented in some way by all the different items in this painting. My father was a photographer and is no longer with us. His camera tripod is the backbone of the painting. The title was inspired by a Chinese fortune cookie I opened one evening. It said "You will be surrounded by luxury!" We had a good laugh over it, and then I started thinking of all the many ways we are, indeed, surrounded by luxury. Good families, good friends around our dinner table…it rather depends upon how you define "luxury"! I apologize to Henri Matisse for turning his painting Red Room into a paint-by-numbers. It is included because I overheard my brother-in-law explaining to someone at a gallery reception that "Myra is such a good artist—you can’t see the numbers in her work anymore!" The two-tiered cake shows up again in The Studio (Closet).