Two Saxophone Players, Snug Harbor Jazz Club, New Orleans. I was painfully shy in my childhood. Approaching adolesence, I began drawing people as a ‘safe’ way to bring them to me and start conversations. Art became my ‘avenue’ to travel out to and converse with others. Over the years, growing up, raising kids and working, my shyness dissipated (not completely…really), but not my adventures in the art world. I loved learning all different art methods of expression, but have also learned that you need to be true to yourself to become a successfully-satisfied artist. I am a huge Kandinsky fan, and admire Pollock’s action art, but I still come back to my people. And now I enjoy bringing out the beauty of the everyday, the mundane. My latest series is about everyday life in New Orleans. Not surprisingly, New Orleans gives new meaning to everyday life…..every day, there is a parade….every day, the streets are decorated in carnival fashion…every day, there is a show going on. My Two Saxophone Players is part of this series. Delfeayo Marsalis & the Uptown Jazz Orchestra (which my saxophone players are part of) play regularly throughout New Orleans. Their music, as well as other formal and informal musical groups in this city, is such a common-day experience here, that music becomes as ubiquitous as oxygen. Being part of this experience, even just for a few days, stays with you forever. Robin April, 2021