Lean on Each Other

Figures stretch and take deep breathes, under spring trees in Lean on Each Other, a 42 x 72” oil on canvas painting. Friends, in the central bottom third of the piece are leaning in on each other as they walk together, while a figure to the viewer’s right of them stretches out their arms below row houses. Moving up the left-hand side of the canvas, in the middle, are people hiking in nature. A central figure in pink is reaching over stretching, resting on the arm of another person in green and blue. Abstract shapes that look like an origami peace cranes are repeated throughout the painting. A main figure in the top central portion of the canvas has crossed hands under their chin and wears a blue hat under the foliage of a tree, while a smaller figure is piggy-backed across their shoulders looking at what they hold in their hands.