This acrylic painting was made for a call for proposals and was titled Always Blue – Above the Clouds (40×30 cm). The Jancsó Art Gallery has announced a competition for professional and self-taught artists, in which it can be entered with paintings reflecting the quarantine or with artworks made during that time.
I think I can safely say that during the quarantine, the lives of all of us were characterized by general greyness. Our everyday life faded more and more, and we dragged the weights of gray everydays with us. We went on, but then and there we weren’t sure it would all be over.
We didn’t know that the danger that threatened would disappear. Maybe everyone rejoiced in doubt. But every day there was something small that gave strength. Every week there was someone whose voice on the phone raised the bitter anticipation. There was a goal that gave us hope in these sad days to move on. We hoped to be together again with those we love soon to reconnect in cloudless happiness.
The painting depicts these gray days. The clouds that obscured the colours of life from us. The beauty of the landscape and nature remained even then, only we saw it through gray glasses. But as we waited inside for the storm to recede, the blue of the sky and hope was all there for us to know, the time would come when the golden rays of the sun would kiss us back and forth again.
