The Gardener

11×14 oils on canvas panel

In 2020, our world ground to a halt with a nationwide “shutdown” in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. My group plein air activities ceased. So my friend Serena Robison, who supplies many local retail florists from her huge garden, invited me to paint there, a welcome respite from the forced isolation and uncertainty of the pandemic. At the back you see sweet Serena, tending her garden.