It was a wet and foggy day… my favorite kind of days. We drove home and I couldn’t stop looking at the scenery around me. The muted colors of the landscape and the way the fog made everything feel so dreamy that I asked my husband to just keep driving for a bit longer so I could snap some photos. Later, I painted my first landscape from that day and a collection was born. As the paintings started coming together, I realized something was missing. On a whim, I tried framing one in a vintage frame and it clicked! They each needed a vintage frame to make them feel finished. I started scouring for just the right frames for each piece and when they were all put together, they were just right. As if they were meant to be.
I titled the collection “Come Away” from a section in Song of Solomon from the Bible. It’s such a romantic passage full of hope in a new season to come that it felt like the perfect fit for this collection. Each individual piece is also named from lines in this selection of verses.
My love calls to me:
Arise, my darling.
Come away, my beautiful one.
For now the winter is past;
the rain has ended and gone away.
The blossoms appear in the countryside.
The time of singing has come,
and the turtledove’s cooing is heard in our land.
The fig tree ripens its figs;
the blossoming vines give off their fragrance.
Arise, my darling.
Come away, my beautiful one.
My dove, in the clefts of the rock,
in the crevices of the cliff,
let me see your face,
let me hear your voice;
for your voice is sweet,
and your face is lovely.
Catch the foxes for us —
the little foxes that ruin the vineyards —
for our vineyards are in bloom.
My love is mine and I am his;
he feeds among the lilies.
Until the day breaks
and the shadows flee,
turn around, my love, and be like a gazelle
or a young stag on the divided mountains
Song of Solomon 2:10-2:17
Each piece is an original acrylic painting on high-quality watercolor paper, matted with a white mat and framed in a vintage frame under protective glass. I love the way these look leaning against a wall, on a shelf, stacked one on top of another on a wall, or as part of a gallery wall. You might even need more than one!
