As many of you know, I have been doing paintings of the Rotary International Theme and making prints for gifts and sales, with the proceeds donated to the Rotary International Foundation. I wanted to share my underlying thoughts as an artist about how to approach my painting for the theme for the 2020–2021 Rotary Year “Rotary Opens Opportunities.” I looked at the three doors with the thought – what am I going to do with that – then my imagination told me to do a multi-door painting with doors upon doors, using the three theme colors of cranberry, yellow and blue in an old time quilt pattern nine-patch. The three patches of each of the main center doors have the cornflower on them, the native flower of Germany. I then decided to design a flat map of the world over the doors to symbolize Rotary throughout the world. The blue cornflower row was formed to separate the large doors from the small doors. The unpainted door within the row of small doors is symbolic relating how new Rotary members can enter opening opportunities to a whole new world of service. The image below shows my painting for the theme.
