Ellen Finks spent her career as a classical performing flutist--one that required the utmost precision. No mistakes allowed! In retirement, she took up painting to try something new but not unfamiliar: her mother was an artist. Ellen tried watercolor first but has taken workshops and courses in multiple mediums--"finding her voice," she says. A workshop in "Intuitive Expression" a.k.a. abstract painting --a style she was eager to "understand" --resulted in a painting that won a prize award and gave her affirmation that inspired her to create and exhibit over a dozen works in the abstract style that she finds liberating and joyful--a definitive change in mind from her days of performing classical music. There are no mistakes and no explaining: She just paints over what doesn't work in free-flowing brush strokes of juicy colors inspired by a decade living in Mexico.