On the cover:
"Les Fleurs du Château" by Melinda Lacerna Kimbrell, MD, is a 36 x 48 cm oil on canvas in the impasto style with thick, Van Gogh-like paint strokes using very thick paint. This painting was inspired by sunflowers displayed in a vase in one of the bedrooms of a château in the Loire Valley of France in July 2005. Dr Kimbrell was further inspired by the sunflower-covered French fields.

Dr Kimbrell is a plastic surgeon at the Woodland Hills clinic in Southern California. She has had no formal art training aside from a few college art classes. "Les Fleurs du Château" is her second oil painting; she considers her style to be "impressionistic."

Submit your artwork to TPJ ...

We are always interested in considering artwork by Kaiser Permanente clinicians and employees. If you would like to submit art for consideration for the cover or interior of The Permanente Journal, please use the following guidelines:

Send us a high-quality color photograph of your art no smaller than 4x5 and no larger than 8x10. For cover art submission, portrait orientation is preferred. Please include a cover letter explaining Kaiser Permanente association, art background, medium and a brief statement about the artwork (description, inspiration, etc). Electronic and e-mail submissions are accepted,
E-mail us if you have any further questions