Jamie's Choice
by Bill Turner
“Land of Heart’s Desire,
Where beauty has no ebb,
Decay no flood,
But joy is wisdom,
And time’s an endless song.”
-W. B. Yeats
Jamie's Choice Painting in Southern Living Magazine
by Bill Turner
“The artist’s function is the mythologizing of the environment and the world.”
-Joseph Campbell
“Roads are a marvelous vehicle for takings one’s imagination into a painting”
Bill Turner
Hyde Road
by Bill Turner
“Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
By streams that never find the sea;
Over snow by winter sown,
And through the merry flowers of June,
Over grass and over stone,
And under mountains in the moon.
Roads go ever ever on,
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green
And trees and hills they long have known.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien, from The Hobbit