There was a singer songwriter named Connie Converse who never really was famous in her time but she left behind recordings of about 40 excellent folk songs. She wrote and recorded the songs in the early 1950's which was ahead of her time, that was the era of radio-friendly quartet music and then of course rock and roll. Her music is still played to this day by various musicians, and the original recordings can be found on youtube. I thought the story was neat, and the music was enjoyable. One of the songs called How Sad, How Lovely, was about contradictory feelings, one of the lines was something to the effect of "how sad how lovely, to see the sunset at the end of the street." which resonated with me as an artist, given that I have painted many sunsets at the end of the street before. In this abstract painting I tried to conjure up the sad idea with a blue orb, and the lovely idea with the various organic decorations surrounding it. I also included the signature distant tree line which appears in a lot of my abstract paintings.
Sad Lovely, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper October 2023 (No. 3653b)
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