Citrus Liturgy

Citrus Liturgy
Acrylic on wood panel, 10" x 10"
 
I woke up that morning with a deep loneliness. The kind you feel in your chest before you've even opened your eyes all the way. I wanted to paint but didn't know what, so I sat with it and peeled an orange.
A rogue splash of juice hit me next to my eye.
Sometimes the subject finds you. Oranges show up in my work repeatedly and I've stopped questioning why. There's something in the weight of them, the colour, the way the light moves across the skin. This one arrived on a quiet lonely morning and pulled me back into the present tense.
 
That's what painting does. That's what oranges do apparently.
 
$160 CAD - Original, one of a kind.  
 
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