Every year my family and I would spend a week or two at a cottage up north in the Kawarthas. While doing cottagey things like swimming in the lake or playing games, the hummingbirds would constantly be flitting around the feeder just outside the big cottage window. When planning this painting I knew that hummingbirds were the birds that belonged in it. I don't know if there is a traditional bird to represent love, happiness and family, but for me that bird is the hummingbird.
I keep acquiring chairs, some on purpose, some not. These are the latter. Every chair has a personality and tells a story. I decided that before these chairs get put away for later use they needed to be the subject of a painting.