Five Bartlett Pears

24" x 30" — Oil/Canvas — 2009
• Available at the Elliott Fouts Gallery

This winter has been cold. Bitter cold. I know it's been cold throughout the entire continent, but I'm sure if you were to take a look at the average temperature where I am, you'd fall into stunned silence. I should not feel like this until the end of February, not January. I guess I always have the warm colors in the pears. And radiant heat in the studio.