Award Winning Artwork

Acrylic on canvas.

36 x 36 x 1.5 in. (91.4 × 91.4 × 3.8 cm)

Sacramento FIne Art Gallery people’s choice nominated this painting, best in show out 100 artworks. Herbig-Haro 24, a newly formed star, serves as the inspiration behind this piece. Captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, HH 24 ejects two striking jets of golden light that collide with the surrounding dust, dark matter, and gases. At its center, a new star is born—its radiant light piercing through a dense dark cloud of cosmic dust. Like HH 24, we too are bright stars. Even in the darkest of clouds, we must allow our inner light to shine. When we do, our brilliance becomes impossible to ignore.