Window to the Past

This premium quality giclee print is a reproduction of my original pastel painting titled Window to the Past. Years ago, I was riding around the neighborhood where I grew up in Northeast Alberta, and I came across an abandoned farmhouse that really captured my interest. The first thing I said to the person with me at the time was ‘imagine how much this house could tell us if it could talk!

This painting shows exactly what I saw when I looked inside the broken window on the west side of the house. While looking through this window, I couldn’t help wondering how the brick wall and staircase looked like when the house was lived in. Or if this house has been occupied by a large family like mine of fourteen children? Or how many times kids had come down those stairs laughing or crying or even fighting with each other like my siblings and I did.  Or even if the upstairs of this house got cold at night like mine did when I was a little girl? For many, this print is sure to evoke nostalgia and for others it will be a reminder of many Canadian’s past experiences.