Shelley Duvall as Wendy Torrance, 1980 Painting

I was inspired to capture the early 1980s mom in her dress with her 1980s bob haircut which I remember clearly from my own mom in her nurse's outfit taking me to preschool at the college where she was taking nursing classes or from my preschool and kindergarten teachers. The cigarette I don't remember as well from my mom or teachers but I do remember seeing those long ashes sometimes in restaurants and smelling the strong acrid, nutty smoke. I grew up in Oregon and skied at Timberline where some of the filming for the lodging in the movie was done. I now live in Colorado where the Stanley Hotel is and some of the other filming was done. I often thought about the dad who loses his cool and how scary that would be for the wife and child. I'm a former child myself so that colors my perception, but now I'm a big tall, wrinkly man so I probably frighten some children. I painted Shelley - who apparently was pretty stressed during the intense filming scenes for this movie - in bright red and blue acrylics.