2025

Acrylic on canvas
24” x 24”
Original
Gallery Wrapped

"Willing Bloom" is a thickly-textured, warmly toned homage to E.C. Segar, of 1930’s Popeye comic strip fame.
Apollos, the tin man strolls, open-handed, focused on the temporary beauty he holds. This piece reflects a quiet, intentional openness—a choice to move with life, not against it.

It speaks to trusting in Divine care and growing in God’s timing, like the flowers of the field that bloom without striving or anxiety. In surrendering, we find beauty, wholeness, and the gentle assurance that we’re being shaped, and surprised by grace, even in the hardest seasons.