Vermilion Insatiable Peace 13X36 Pastel and pencil on paper

Vermilion Insatiable Peace is based on Frederic Chopin's Berceuse in Db, Opus 57.

The Berceuse is a gentle lullaby with a persistent figure in the left hand. The text on this painting We are apart in the grassy places comes from the W.B. Yeats poem The Wanderings of Oisin.

But We are apart in the grassy places,
Where care cannot trouble the least of our days,
Or the softness of youth be gone from our faces,
Or love’s first tenderness die in our gaze.