🎁 “Girl in the Shallows – A Gift and a Conversation”
- Painting and Emotion
- Gift from the Artist
- Winston Churchill as a Painter
Holding a paintbrush is like entering a hidden room in the mind. Only colors and imagination know the way in. And once there, in that silence, images appear that are more than just pictures — they are feelings.
A girl in the shallows, back turned, gazing toward the horizon. The sea is silent. She is too.And somehow, in that shared silence, a conversation begins.
As one Croatian poet wrote:
"... I watch the sea as it climbs toward me,
and I listen — good morning, it says.
And it listens to me, as I whisper,
good morning, sea, I say softly..."
Painting of the Month: “Girl in the Shallows” (oil on canvas)
Some paintings don't want to speak out loud.
They whisper.
They stand still, turned away from the world, waiting… to be felt.
Maybe this girl reminds you of yourself.
Maybe of someone you know.
Maybe of the sea that remembers your steps.
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A Brief Note on Winston Churchill – A Painter of the Pressured Soul
Few people know that Winston Churchill, beyond his political legacy, was also a passionate amateur painter.
He began painting in his later years, searching for peace from personal unrest and the infamous “black dog” — depression. He created over 500 paintings, mostly landscapes and nature scenes.
For him, painting wasn’t an escape — it was medicine. In his essay Painting as a Pastime, he wrote:
“Painting is complete as a distraction. I know of nothing which, without exhausting the body, more entirely absorbs the mind.”
Isn’t that exactly what we feel when we hold a brush?
🎨 I want to hear from you:
Do you love painting?
Do you love poetry?
What does emotion look like in color — and how does it sound in verse?
Whose words do you return to? Whose art speaks to you?
Is there still a place in this world for artists, painters, and poets?
🌊 GIFT OF THE MONTH – HOW IT WORKS:
Leave a comment under this post — it can be your reflection, a thought, a quote, a memory, even a poem.
At the end of the month, I will choose one comment that touches me most — and I will send you this original painting, “Girl in the Shallows.”
It would be an honor to see it gently sail into your home.
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