The Simple Things by Gary Bunt

About

The Simple Things is Bunt’s most brilliantly conceived exhibition to date. It focuses on life’s purest pleasures, including friendship, physical affection, gardening, fishing, and even the sweet sensation of being tucked up at home when it’s raining outside. Each of the show’s ten sections contains one large, virtuosic canvas depicting the inside of a house looking out through a window, and a group of smaller, related, pictures looking back.

Each painting has a poem on the reverse of the canvas.
Where Flowers Grow
Oil on canvas
40 x 48 inches

In a room with a view, it could be me or you
Together or maybe alone
Felling good, bad, happy or sad
Sitting in a room of one’s own
Life is much like a book, inside we must look
Each chapter leading us to the end
As the story is told, our journey unfolds
We meet lovers, villains, and friends
From day to day, we must listen and pray
Be grateful for each God-given breath
Read a line at a time as one day we will find
We only have one page left
That’s when the robin shall sing, the church bells will ring
Pull the sally on the end of the rope
And the gardener will know, as he weeds and he hoes
Where flowers grow there will always be hope