🔴Walt Whitman with Butterflies in his Beard, 2025
His corduroy suit frayed by the moonlight.
This is inspired by Ode to Walt Whitman by Lorca. I imagine on the banks of the Hudson, but for the painting I wanted it simpler. Just the beard, the moonlight and of course the butterflies.
“Not for a moment,Walt Whitman, lovely old man,
Have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies,
Nor your corduroy shoulders frayed by the moon,”
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 cm
£1100