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SUSAN NEILSON

Forest House Studio

Art for Curious Optimists


All paintings are for sale unless marked with red dot. Prints and commissioned works are also sometimes available on request.

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SUSAN NEILSON

Forest House Studio

Art for Curious Optimists


All paintings are for sale unless marked with red dot. Prints and commissioned works are also sometimes available on request.

Please get in touch via the contact page. 

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Kiss the Joy
Oil on canvas - in two sections
C2736
24 x 60 x 1.5 in - Two 24 x 30 sections

This was part of an "Eternity" series that started with sketchbook drawings made on a visit to my father when his health was failing. On the bookshelf, there was a very old book with poetry by William Blake, that included this:


Eternity

He who binds to himself a joy

Does the wingéd life destroy;

But he who kisses the joy as it flies

Lives in eternity’s sunrise.

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