TM9433 Blow Wind Blow, Blow My Woes Away 42×48 oil on panel

When I started this painting I didn’t know what was coming, for me, for the people I love, for all of us. It might seem strange to paint a full blown autumn tree while a pandemic rages in April, but it isn’t. I find myself wanting to embrace everything and everyone I love, but I can’t, so I’m touching the word virtually, through painting. I want to pour colors onto a panel – maybe in hopes it will cheer me and others. At the same time, the pandemonium rages on, and the urge to express motion, and the feeling of everything changing, is the only constant. Maybe this painting is wishful thinking. Or a prayer. I can’t say for sure; I paint. Details below.

TM9433 Blow Wind Blow, Blow My Woes Away – detail from right of center showing blue sky and clouds through swaying branches and leaves

TM9433 Blow Wind Blow, Blow My Woes Away – detail from left of center showing layered roller strokes

TM9433 Blow Wind Blow, Blow My Woes Away – detail from lower right