The Turning of the Year IV, ©John O’Grady
12″ x 12″ x 1.8″, oil on deep edge panel, ready to hang.
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As the old year falls away and the new one arrives, I hope it brings you peace and many possibilities.
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John–What a glorious, hopeful turn of the year you present us! Writing from a frigid part of the world (new England) at a time when most news is dreary if not horrific, your painting warms and animates me. Thank goodness for imagination and art! Thank you for continuing to bring us beauty and passion. I love this painting. Wishing you all the best in 2018!
Hello Rachel,
Thank you very much for your comment, best wishes to you for 2018 as well. The physicality of making a painting depicting the movement of one year to the next, I find positive and affirming. Your thoughts and encouraging words only added to my own thoughts after finishing it.
The ground is cold and still, but the ever-changing sky is ablaze with possibility, filling the eye with warm light. I can’t help but read hope in it — in the unavoidable fact of endless change, which brings closure and loss but also new openings, new breath, in every moment. What a glorious vision with which to launch the year, John! Thank you, and all my best wishes for peace and inspiration in 2018.
Hello Jo,
I wish you a 2018 also filled with peace and creativity. Thank you for your lovely comment on the painting. Marking the occasion of that ‘endless change’ is as you have so rightly stated full of ‘hope’ and ‘new beginnings’ perhaps the ground marks the cold resting place of 2017 and the aerial part of the painting takes us into the realm of the future
As pretty often, I stare at your paintings… Never intouched … They always appeal a part of me . My deep part. Between my “bright part” and my incouscious one… I am moved, I don’t know exactly why. Can’t really say … Love this one particularly… Colours ? Shades ? The big importance given to the sky and so giving a great one to the hearth therefore ? Both, certainly.
Happy new year, dear John, and thanks a lot for sharing your “painted emotions”
Hello Dominique
Happy New year to you and all your nearest and dearest. It’s lovely to read you say that the painting moved you. What more can I ask for the start of another year. I agree the ‘importance of the sky’ is where the hope lies. Thank you very much
It lifts my spirits to see and to feel the ’emotion of colour’ in this painting John. The low horizon places me down in the frozen field but as I lift my eyes up, I see a wondrous sky set ablaze by the setting sun; it is truly filled with the hope of light and of life. Thank you for your precious gifts and for the pleasure they provide and I wish you every happiness in the year ahead.
ps I am inprisred by the words of your followers
Hello Chris thank you for your kind words for the year ahead I wish you likewise. Your comment on the painting reflected my hopes for how it might end up full of energy and the ‘light and life’ that you mention, thank you very much