The world's favourite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.
- Edwin Way Teale
Yes, I continue to work in the orchard series as I am drawn
to what the trees represent.
In the time of blossom there is an airy feel-almost as if a cloud is resting on the land.
In the time of blossom there is an airy feel-almost as if a cloud is resting on the land.
This cloud camouflages and protects the nesting birds, one of
which made it's way into this painting.
Waiting for May, oil on canvas, 36x48in, copyright Jan Yates 2014
available (inquire here)
"It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what."
- John Galsworthy
