Golden Field

by Steve Henderson

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$1,250

Dimensions

16.000 x 12.000 inches

Title

Golden Field

Artist

Steve Henderson

Medium

Painting - Oil On Panel

Description

Storms are fascinating.

With good reason, most people don’t like to be out in the midst of them. A warm, cozy room, one with windows where we can look out at the wind and rain – this is a delightful spot in which to experience a storm.

So it is how many of us, if given the choice, would choose to experience the storms of life: from the inside, looking out, and not thrust out in those elements.

But life generally doesn’t give us such a choice, and everyone, at some time in their lives, finds themselves in the midst of rain and wind, struggling to stay warm and dry. At the time, no one would call the experience pleasant – whether we’re in a storm of life or an actual, weather storm – but there’s something about the end of the storm, that time when the sun breaks through the clouds, that is a moment like no other.

The artwork, Golden Field, captures this moment. Overhead, the clouds are broody and grey, and we get the sense that not that long ago, they poured down rain, and the wind whipped it into the air. But that has all stopped.

Through the clouds, indomitable and determined, golden rays of sun pour forth onto the landscape.

“The storm is over,” the rays announce. “It was brutal, and it was cold, and it poured forth what it had – but it is over. And now I, the sun, break through.”

And while sunlight is always glorious, there is something about sunlight immediately after a storm, sunlight breaking through while the majority of the landscape and sky are still grey and dark and moody, that is even more glorious.

It is a moment of hope and beauty, of relief and rest – and of victory.

(The landscape of Golden Field is located in Eastern Washington, the farm and ranch country of Ellensburg in Kittitas County.)

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November 27th, 2019

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