Primavera ; sunlight returns like a benediction, hope and colour after a long cold winter

I ticked off the things I could do, being a painter seemed the best use of my time, Yet I still feel shamefaced about the time spent in the studio, as if my life is more justified spent elsewhere. 

Watercolour and pencil on paper, study

Chapter 29 Lord Jim

"But do you notice how, three hundred miles beyond the end of telegraph cables and mail-boat lines, the haggard utilitarian lies of our civilization wither and die, to be replaced by pure exercises of imagination, that have the futility, often the charm, and sometimes the deep hidden truthfulness, of works of art ?"

Work in progress

This is what's happening in the studio..