This was one of my first paintings. I had never picked up a brush in my life but after my wife passed away I was encouraged by an artist friend to take up oil painting as a way to deal with my grief. I didn’t have anything specific in mind when I started this work, but I now see that I was expressing my feelings about finding a path out of grief and moving ahead with life. Since I started in early 2018 I have finished more than 30 paintings.