This is a larger painting, 15" x 18," titled "The Circle" and very much in process, pieced together from numerous photos and depicting a family of four canines. This is a commissioned painting, and as such, it already has a home - but I'm happy to create something similar for you. Inquiries may come to me. In process photos, many of them, are on the studio's Facebook page . I could talk about the circle of life and creativity and inspiration, but honestly, I am exhausted. This weekend we lay my grandparents to rest alongside each other in the family plot. And celebrate a mass in the church they were married in 72 years ago. And I'm holding firm to the idea that Rome wasn't built in a day. Nor were bones magically reknit together. Or houses cleaned stem to stern in the blink of an eye. Or all sorts of other hurts mended instantly. Fondly, Kim, who really should stop worryin...