Thread of Light, Okefenokee Swamp, GA by John Cleaveland - 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle

Looking at this detail of John Cleaveland's painting (original oil on panel, 34 x 80 in.) "Thread of Light, Okefenokee Swamp, GA" is a meditative experience, much like being out on the water he renders so finely. Humans are drawn to water, and for aesthetic reasons as much as practical ones. Cleaveland himself spends time out on it and says, "Unpowered watercraft are my thing. You're moving really slowly in this painting. You've pulled the paddle up and you're just gliding." Although he started out as an abstract painter while getting his bachelor of fine arts degree at the University of Georgia, time at UGA's Cortona, Italy, study-abroad program lifted the veil from his eyes about representational art and converted him to landscapes. He's spent the past few decades wandering from his hometown of Farmington, Georgia, just outside Athens, to Missouri, Montana, and France (in a series of World War I battlefields), but he keeps coming back to Georgia. Cleaveland says that painting differe