They call her Anna Perenna, Brigid, Flora, Freya, Hebe, Ostara, Lada, Libera, Maia, Olwen, Persephone …. It is the death of Spring, the last wisteria flowers in evening shades, the season’s nocturne.
This was painted around the time I was reading Tales from Ovid, the small creatures of the spring air seemed weighted with myth and immortal body, sparrows teaching their young to fly and now they are flown and spring it is all but over.
Tim Cumming 