Imagine

Imagine sang John Lennon

Imagine, I thought

Just imagine if my Edward Hopper painting was real

Do you know Edward Hopper?

I'm sure you do even if you think you don't.

American artist - sombre, lonely works with strong colours

And more in them than at first meets the eye

Jack Vettriano would give his eye teeth for Hopper's gift.

But anyway, back to the point.

The point being Portland Head by Edward Hopper

And the fact that it's now on my wall

And it's signed ... well sort of ...

"Edward Hopper" in the right-hand corner.

It shows a lighthouse

Right next to that is a New England homestead

with its chestnut-coloured roof

Golden sun-weathered grass all around

Sky, sea, earth's curve.

Who lives there? Who lived there?

I've been to Portland.  It's in Maine.

We saw the lighthouse, the very spot.

And now it's here in the living room.

Perhaps I'm drawn into this painting because of family

They're in New England - Boston, Martha's Vineyard.

I think of Aquinnah on the Vineyard and its pinkish lighthouse

and its tufty grass.

Perhaps that's why my family all live there

Maybe drawn to that same place

A place, away, away .....

Maybe physically, maybe just in their thinking

I think of our much-loved Anglesey as I look at it.

Penmon Point, Puffin Island, Holyhead lighthouse

The Hopper on the wall continually draws me in -

Captivated by those watercolours.

Our print is big, very big, maybe 3.1/2ft by 2.1/2ft

It looks wonderful, I got it for 15 quid from the charity shop

It looks real.  Imagine if it was .... but what the heck

I don't believe I would love it more than I do.