Original artwork description:

oil on canvas 80cm x 100cm

this painting was inspired by a poem of Edgar Albert Guest
Into the crucible, stirred by the years,
Go all our hopes and misgivings and fears;
Glad days and sad days, our pleasures and pains,
Worries and comforts, our losses and gains.
Out of the crucible shall there not come
Joy undefiled when we pour off the scum?

Materials used:

oil on canvas