Oil on stretched canvas, ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

This the outlook from my studio window where I view this house while I’m painting.
To look out the window and see the beauty of ordinary things. For me windows are the only connection to the outside world in this lock down. In a monotonous and often helpless lives, a window offers an escape from reality. I draw the only information available to me from this window, what is the weather today, how winter is waning and spring is coming, the changes in the trees and flowers, how people are dressed, how father and daughter are playing with each other in the house. Outside is always a moment, life, colours, something new. I peer outside but I’m busy with my own thoughts, my past life where I was playing with my parents like this, in another country wishing I could see them. The painting has a deeper meaning, it’s about all who haven’t met their family’s or can’t be with them, and those who lost loved ones to COVID as I lost mine.
The mobile phone is a symbol of the vital tangible connection we have with those we long to be with.