March 16, 2020

The COVID-19 Lockdown

During the Pandemic we all spent a great deal more time at home, which got me thinking a lot about what home really means… what comforts us, I think that’s most of it, the familiar… our loved ones of course, and comfy beds and clothes and food, but place is important, too.

Where is Home for you?

When I think about where I’m from, I don’t think of just one house or one town or one community, but I do see one place in my mind; one with fields and forests full of evergreens and bright orange straw like fallen snow, but the tall pines that have shed those needles most of all… sometimes gangly and misshapen, but beautiful in their own way, and familiar most of all.

That’s home to me. Cling to what you know to be true when times are hard… Home.❤️

About the Artist

As a southern artist, Shawn Haynes finds herself immersed in all of the beauty - stretching from the palmetto trees of the Low Country to the swamps of the Pee Dee region. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, she buckled down and got to work, expressing a variety of personal emotions through her abstracts, landscapes, and even still lives. Have you seen her past work? Check out archives to see some of her favorites from the thick of the pandemic and beyond.