"During my travels, I often wander about, keeping an eye out for new scenes to sketch and paint. On one of my journeys, I was walking through a village park enjoying the splendor of springtime. Everything had come to life again in a joyous display of colors and fragrances. The afternoon sun shone through the new leaves and spattered across the cool stone path. I was so moved by the brilliance and warmth that I simply had to stop and capture this celebration of spring and its new beginnings.

I knew that a scene with flowers and dogwood was a perfect celebration of spring and its new beginnings. It was only after I completed Afternoon Light, Dogwood in my studio that I realized what a perfect expression of the season of rebirth the dogwood — the legendary source of the wood for our Lord's cross, and the symbol of Easter — truly is."

~~Thomas Kinkade