The Walk Home Women's T-Shirt

"The Walk Home" is a flirtation with pictorial poetry coupled with emotion.
The lone figure carrying the daily supply of water back to her home from the creek area lends a feeling of loneliness but at the same time independence.
Perhaps another title for this piece could be "The Way it Was".
With all our modern conveniences we have lost something of our feeling for the times past. This little painting may help reestablish a bit of that feeling.
Painted on Masonite double gesso primed board with fluid colors using a dryer medium to facilitate glazes over the under painting. Original size is11" X 14".

Born in Philadelphia in the late thirties, Jim Gola grew up heavily influenced by art and the cultural atmosphere contained in this bustling city. The city of brotherly love is still a thriving east coast art market that comprises some of the oldest art schools and galleries in America. Jim admits to spending numerous hours at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art as a youngster. Admiring much of the work of Americas past masters such as Inness, Moran, Chase, Homer and Bierstadt, among others. He then started to generate his lifelong love of oil painting. Moving to Oregon in the early sixties, while free lancing in art, Jim was introduced to the field of architecture. Upon receiving commissions to...