Behind the “Plough”

Originally, I painted this for my mother. She was raised on a farm.

Georgeanne Rose was the most genteel person you would ever want to meet, but when I was a kid, she would tell me stories about how as a young girl she would have to kill and prep the chicken for Sunday dinner. Everyone in her family had a job. They were a farm family. It seemed so far away from the suburban life we were leading at the time. But how it made me respect and love her more…