TOM BLOOD'S Above It All

A couple - elegant, composed and intimately connected seem to be walking on air above a winding, rural path, Their posture is calm, almost matter-of-fact. The man in the bowler hat has his arm around the woman and her arm rests on the man's back. Her dress catches the eye immediately, like a flicker of sunlight against the muted sky. Below them, a dirt path cuts through thick, wind-swept greenery, leading toward soft, rolling hills. The path suggests a journey, something grounded and real, yet the figures have literally risen above it. Are they escaping from the many troubles of today's world? Rising together in love? That story is for the viewer to conjure. The soft, almost hazy sky reinforces the feeling that they're moving into a space beyond consequence, beyond gravity and perhaps, beyond the noise of life. This painting is a poetic statement about connection and elevation - how two people, together, can rise "above it all".