''When a Happy Thing Falls", 2010, oil on canvas, 40 x 60 in. / 101.6 x 152.4 cm.

''When a Happy Thing Falls", Cynthia Brantley, 2010, oil on canvas, 40 x 60 in. / 101.6 x 152.4 cm.

This is a painting with a title taken from a Rilke poem. It is the beginning of a series that began the transition from being a figurative painter to doing non representational images.