16" x 20", oil on wood panel, 2014 I knew when I painted Writing Between the Fighting that it would need a companion painting to go in my War at Home section of my WWI painting project . I constructed this scene from a few different elements including the young woman who was volunteering at Ameliasburgh Historical Museum and the main setting which is from a photo I took while painting at Rose House Museum . The title powerfully conveys the heartbreak of being very far away from home and loved ones. I thought I was borrowing it from a line from Six Months in a Leaky Boat by Split Enz, but I discovered that they got the line from a book with that title by Geoffrey Blainey (the subject of the song being the same as the book).
Milê Murtanovski's artwork...mostly paintings...and the occasional scale model.