Here’s a quick piece from a recent walk. No matter the weather (it was a grey overcast day) it is still beautiful here …and every day is different – the light, the water …everything. I limited my palette a bit more than usual by removing all my shades of reds.
Tom wrote a lovely poem that is a (happier) riff on “Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold.
The sea is calm today:
beneath the surface silent currents sweep
through narrows, over reefs
far down into the darkling deeps
while high above the sky keeps faith
with us. We walk the shore
in beauty as the light
of Winter Solstice softly peeps
through the crowded clouds that paint the sky.
There is no sadness here
no ignorance of all
the love, the joy, the hope that rules the world.
No leaden certainties constrain this life
to pain or darkness
though even now poor distant armies fight
beneath this sky, far off across the sea.
Stand by me now, my love,
on this cold day when light is short
for life is long
and in the Ocean’s silence is the song.
image (c) 2019 Hilary Farmer
poem (c) 2019 TJ Radcliffe
Green Tea Doodles 
Wow. You and Tom are an inspiring creative team. Love the painting and the poem.
Thank you so much! We inspire each other which is pretty special. 🙂