“Strength of Woman" by Marilyn Wells - Oil & Cold Wax Painting

This Oil Painting Original, 20“ x 24“, oil on wood panel, framed, was inspired by: “When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it is over, I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument.   I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.” ― Mary Oliver - 2301OCW by Marilyn Wells Mother Earth Series - Land 1 I've been exploring a technique new to me but that's been around for hundreds of years - cold wax. I have always loved the icons of the Middle East and the Orthodox churches in particular, and wanted to introduce more of the rich and broken textures that appear in those icons after a few hundred years of wear and weathering. I am delighted to say I am achieving the results I want, as in this painting, larger than my earlier ones. This painting is about luxuriating in the beauty