"Sonnets", 40" by 40", oil on canvas, 2009
I am excited to show you my newest large work, an oil painting meant to capture the colors and feel of spring. It will be part of the exhibition I’m looking forward to in May, a show featuring all new paintings, mostly landscapes, highlighting the places I have traveled to and enjoyed. More about this exciting event soon to come…
For now, enjoy this preview and the sonnet I found below.
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Sonnet 98
From you have I been absent in the spring
When proud-pied April, dress’d in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing,
That heavy Saturn laugh’d and leap’d with him.
Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell
Of different flowers in odour and in hue,
Could make me any summer’s story tell,
Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:
Nor did I wonder at the lily’s white,
Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;
They were but sweet, but figures of delight,
Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.
Yet seem’d it winter still, and you away,
As with your shadow I with these did play.
-William Shakespeare |
Love the sonnet! Ultimate admiration.