Spring Melt 2022

Aha, spring has begun for me!

A first sign of Spring, is the big melt of a February “chinook”, as my mom used to call it.

Growing up in Goderich, it was, back then, a rare sight to see ‘pavement’, on the winter walk home from school. I am happy with this piece for two reasons: the ‘close-up’ puddle effect of a child’s ‘worm’s eye view’; and the feeling of warmth on white snow. I achieved the weak gold tone with an underpainting of steeped pekoe tea. This piece evokes memories of my daily winter school walks, with life-long best friend, Cindy.