Chair III

Title: Chair III
Description: Chair III, oil on board, Norman Gilbert 2018

This painting represents Gilbert's wife in her last days.

I love how the picture is filled with joyful colors and lots of objects, and how that resonates in contrast with the distance that the painter puts between us and his wife. She is so far away in the back and still the protagonist of the image.

In Gilbert's paintings, more generally, it's remarkable how places, objects, and people seem to be part of the same, unique universe.