I’ve started working with either gold paint, or gold leaf, after having visited more Orthodox Churches than I can count in the Balkans. Their icons or so lovely, and the shimmering effect of gold lends itself to dreaming… of Yeats! Great Irish poet, who wrote:

Once out of nature I shall never take

My bodily form from any natural thing,

But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

Of hammered gold and gold enamelling

To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;

Or set upon a golden bough to sing

To lords and ladies of Byzantium

Of what is past, or passing, or to come.

I’m far from that, I hope, but it keeps me painting. These are all 12 x 12 on panel, $175, not including shipping or tax. Each is unique, prints are available for $40.