Tag Archives: Hope

November 17

Hope Against Hope

If someone asked you to paint hope, what would you paint? That’s exactly what English artist George Frederic Watts tried to do in his famous painting called Hope. He pictured a woman sitting on top of the world, blindfolded, holding a lyre with most of its strings broken. She’s still trying to play a song—trying […]

March 19

Longing for Home

Meet Christina. A young woman in a stark landscape. You can sense a story is unfolding here, a mystery perhaps. Why is she in the middle of the field? What is she staring at, or waiting for? Is her upper body tense with longing, or with fear? Anna Christina Olson, the subject of this painting, […]