egg tempera on panel, 20.5 x 16 cm, in bespoke, handcrafted frame (Patrick Guyver), April 2026
Painted the week after the birth of our grandson, Hugo Wilfred Guyver; the same day as our daughter’s birth, thirty two years earlier. And the same day Carole King released this song.
This is my altar to spring and joy and hope and life.
who knows if the moon’s
a balloon,coming out of a keen city
in the sky—filled with pretty people?
(and if you and i should
get into it,if they
should take me and take you into their balloon.
why then
we’d go up higher with all the pretty people
than houses and steeples and clouds:
go sailing
away and away sailing into a keen
city which nobody’s ever visited,where
always
it’s
Spring)and everyone’s
in love and flowers pick themselves – ee cummings
egg tempera on panel, 20.5 x 16 cm, in bespoke, handcrafted frame (Patrick Guyver), April 2026
Painted the week after the birth of our grandson, Hugo Wilfred Guyver; the same day as our daughter’s birth, thirty two years earlier. And the same day Carole King released this song.
This is my altar to spring and joy and hope and life.
who knows if the moon’s
a balloon,coming out of a keen city
in the sky—filled with pretty people?
(and if you and i should
get into it,if they
should take me and take you into their balloon.
why then
we’d go up higher with all the pretty people
than houses and steeples and clouds:
go sailing
away and away sailing into a keen
city which nobody’s ever visited,where
always
it’s
Spring)and everyone’s
in love and flowers pick themselves – ee cummings
