Persephone Days - Print
This is a limited edition print of an original acrylic painting. Printed with archival quality inks and paper.
In late January, one of my sisters, who is a farmer, informed me that it was the end of Persephone Days, a turning point in winter when the day length exceeds 10 hours - a threshold for plants where photosynthesis can result in growth instead of just maintenance and her greenhouses kick into high gear with plant starts. Named after the Greek goddess of spring, symbolizing the three months every year where she was banished to the underworld for eating Hades’s pomegranate seeds, in Vermont the end of Persephone Days is the time of year where the forest shows its first signs of spring with swelling buds and a shifting chorus of birdsong. This riverscape of Mill Brook in Jericho, VT captures that feeling for me - the river shedding its ice and the snowpack shrinking, long blue shadows of the evening light on the snow contrasting sharply with the glow of sundown… do you feel it?
Choose 8 X 10 ($25) or 11 X 14 ($40) size.
Ships in a sturdy envelope. If you are local to Vermont you may also opt for “pickup” upon checkout at the Emile Gruppe Gallery in Jericho, VT.
This is a limited edition print of an original acrylic painting. Printed with archival quality inks and paper.
In late January, one of my sisters, who is a farmer, informed me that it was the end of Persephone Days, a turning point in winter when the day length exceeds 10 hours - a threshold for plants where photosynthesis can result in growth instead of just maintenance and her greenhouses kick into high gear with plant starts. Named after the Greek goddess of spring, symbolizing the three months every year where she was banished to the underworld for eating Hades’s pomegranate seeds, in Vermont the end of Persephone Days is the time of year where the forest shows its first signs of spring with swelling buds and a shifting chorus of birdsong. This riverscape of Mill Brook in Jericho, VT captures that feeling for me - the river shedding its ice and the snowpack shrinking, long blue shadows of the evening light on the snow contrasting sharply with the glow of sundown… do you feel it?
Choose 8 X 10 ($25) or 11 X 14 ($40) size.
Ships in a sturdy envelope. If you are local to Vermont you may also opt for “pickup” upon checkout at the Emile Gruppe Gallery in Jericho, VT.
This is a limited edition print of an original acrylic painting. Printed with archival quality inks and paper.
In late January, one of my sisters, who is a farmer, informed me that it was the end of Persephone Days, a turning point in winter when the day length exceeds 10 hours - a threshold for plants where photosynthesis can result in growth instead of just maintenance and her greenhouses kick into high gear with plant starts. Named after the Greek goddess of spring, symbolizing the three months every year where she was banished to the underworld for eating Hades’s pomegranate seeds, in Vermont the end of Persephone Days is the time of year where the forest shows its first signs of spring with swelling buds and a shifting chorus of birdsong. This riverscape of Mill Brook in Jericho, VT captures that feeling for me - the river shedding its ice and the snowpack shrinking, long blue shadows of the evening light on the snow contrasting sharply with the glow of sundown… do you feel it?
Choose 8 X 10 ($25) or 11 X 14 ($40) size.
Ships in a sturdy envelope. If you are local to Vermont you may also opt for “pickup” upon checkout at the Emile Gruppe Gallery in Jericho, VT.