Symbolism and Kristin Calabrese

I had a meeting with Stephen Westfall and he told me to look into Symbolistic Painters and Symbolism in General. I think over the past year I've transitioned from doing Realistic paintings to Naturalistic Paintings with Symbolic Undertones. Im a very spiritual person and it definitely effects my work and I like there to be invisible meanings beneath the visible in my paintings.

Kristin Calabrese's work I think definitely has meaning behind the subjects she is portraying and I think  her and I are very similar painters. I included pieces of her work in this post.