Bloody Tears in Spring

Spirited Life Paintings By Dawn Richerson

Against tender teal blossoms and random patterns that reveal potential beauty, thick red drops of blood rain down. The splattered scene speaks of creation in the midst of chaos and all the ways we think it has been ruined. But nature is a great teacher of the truth of who we are: resilient, radiant, resplendent and knowing that in the end is always a beginning again. Bloody Tears in Spring is a Spirited Life painting from the Dreams for a New World series and an early work by Virginia artist Dawn Richerson.