For She Loved Him So

35cm x 45cm, oil on canvas

Inspired by Penelope’s long vigil for Odysseus, For She Loved Him So also takes its name from the jazz standard Poor Butterfly and from Puccini’s tragic opera Madama Butterfly. A woman stands at the water’s edge, patient and faithful, waiting for the man she loves to return, as he promised, and resisting the well-intentioned urges of those around her that to do so is in vain.