Icon for a stormy season

Calming the storm

Lord, save me!

Jonah before Nineveh

Is there any other sort of season, actually? It has somehow been so difficult to finish this turbulent little piece, perhaps because it put me in mind of other icons with stormy seas which I have painted which have painful associations: Peter drowning in the waves of Galilee, requested by someone newly diagnosed with dementia; reluctant Jonah thrown up on the shore at Nineveh (during the Syrian conflict). I must have begun it way back during the Corona crisis and since then there have been so many new storms - wars and economic crises in the world, illness and death in the family. Now it's finally off my desk, I'm looking for a time and a project with more peace and stillness.