Acrylic on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

This painting is the eighth in a series called Madonna and Child In The Suburbs. I always wonder about Mary. Not only did she have a uniquely crucial role in the christian story but she was also the mother of the human baby Jesus, and, as such, must have spent time doing the things all mothers do -- breastfeeding, changing nappies (or what counted as nappies two millennia ago), struggling with sleeplessness, fatigue and anxiety. This series is not only an appreciation of the unique experience of mother love, but a celebration of the the timeless and transcendent nature of love itself. Because love unites us all, divine and human alike.