#347: A Brighter Future Beneath

Oil on canvas.  An urban scene from the view of a driver on a dual carriageway.  There are buildings on either side of the road, and ahead there is a roundabout and flyover with housing estates visible beyond.  

All this is well lit by the sun that is coming from behind.  Most of the painting is sky, though, a sky that is dark grey above a complete, bright and vivid rainbow, and a lighter grey underneath the rainbow.

Along the bottom edge of the frame, on a small brass plaque, is engraved: “the rainbow contains / a brighter future beneath / but will we reach it?”

#346: Holiday Landscapes

Landscapes from holidays that are stored in your memory to be retrieved when needed on a cold, rainy or bad day.  

#345: Conversation Piece

A conversation with a work of art.  Imagined or otherwise.

#344: *That* thing

Something that fulfills your needs just by being there.

#343: En plein air

The perfect outdoor scene.

Conceived while driving across Northern France.

#342: In plain air

#341: Life is a solo, or is it?

Two music scores.  

The first shows a solo piece that cuts out suddenly in the last line.  Spread out underneath the bars and across several lines, as if lyrics, are the words: Life is a solo, and it continues to the last line.  

The second score shows a piece played by several instruments.  To end the piece there is a solo played by one instrument that cuts out suddenly in the last line, although the rest of the band carry on until the end.  Spread out underneath the bars and across several lines, as if lyrics, are the words: Life is a solo, but you still need the rest of the band.

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After: Associated Press (2022) Renowned jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis dies aged 87. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/12/jazz-artist-ramsey-lewis-death (28th September 2022)