All Creatures Great And Small Painting

I love midnight blues. I remember when I was still working in a corporate job, stuck inside airconditioned air all day, travelling by train to go home and then stepping out of the train car into the fresh air of a beautiful night, looking up into the velvet deep blue sky with its pinpoint stars, the way the trees on the walk home looked against the sky, the magical air enveloping me. Even now, thinking of it, I am there, smiling. The finger touching the image bottom is an echo of Buddha Touching Earth iconography. Very little that happens in my paintings is conscious in the normal sense, rather, when it is going well and I am "in the zone", something wonderful emerges. Protected with archival varnish. Copyright 2020 Valerie Erichsen Thomson