"These paintings are from the past eight years. A period when I would drive my children to grade school. The early morning drive was filled with constant questions and chatter about the day to day life of my young children attending school. What a joy. The drive home was a stark contrast. Driving east of Springfield, it was silent in the car, the absence of giggles and singing and questions. However the sunrises were spectacular. A quiet joy, inspiring. I’d rush into the house and down to my studio to capture the lingering impression of the colors that stretched across the most brilliant and massive of nature’s canvases. An ever changing brilliance. Extraordinary, so filled with color or heavily moody, dark and brooding with only a hint of sunlight. These are my attempts to hold in oil the hope and promise of each new day, that soft spoken sunlight." -J.D. Hull