This original oil on canvas is size: 16"x20". The price includes a classic-style "gold" wood frame. Ready to hang! Prints are also available. Please refer to my page, "Prints: Canvas Oils", for more details and ordering information.
This scene is at the top of a mountain next to the Blue Ridge Parkway, hidden in the fog. The little community is called, "Love", Virginia. The field belonged to Mr. Saylor Coffey who has passed away. Mr. Coffey's son and daughter-in-law, Rev. Billy and Lynn Coffey now have the property, and live adjoining it in a log cabin. I had wanted Sonny to take me up on the mountain to see an unusually shaped tree I wanted to put into a painting. On the way down it started to rain, a cold, almost freezing rain. Before it got worse we wanted to hurry back down the mountain, as the weather is always colder on top than in the valley. As we passed the Coffey place I told Sonny to stop as I wanted to look at it more closely. He couldn't understand why I'd want to stop there as there was "nothing" to see! I told him when I had finished the painting he would like it, and he did! Notice the old, iron-wheeled tractor in the field? It's really located in a field at the bottom of the mountain near the St. Mary's Wilderness Area forest. There are two doves in the picture, as they always go in pairs.
The Bible Scripture titles on this scene are:
"Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that an abundance of water may cover you?"
- Job 38: 34
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"And I said, 'Oh, that I had wings like a dove! For then I would fly away and be at rest. Indeed, I would wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest."
