A 30"Hx22"W oil painting, "Yellow Waves" by Marc Ellen Hamel.  Says Marc Ellen: "I make large color-motivated paintings that are like places you can walk into..or smaller ones that provide a glimpse of some specific territory. At the same time my paintings are simply about paint and its luscious qualities. A painting is a story told visually, and the malleable, deep, oily substance allows me to dig in to find and tell this story. In general, I start with a desire to use a particular color or to break up space and make marks on a surface, and the painting grows from there. While pushing paint around, laying color next to color, I both forget myself and sink in to my personal history; I am in the moment, but attended by all that has gone before. "