Strawberry Fields Forever

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“Strawberry Fields Forever”
Medium:acrylic on canvas
Size: 24″X36″

Story:
John Lennon loved to play in the garden of  Strawberry Fields when he
was a child. It was a Salvation Army school for children near his home
in Liverpool.  His mom used to chide him for going there and so he had
said it was “nothing to get hung about”.
The song brought back memories of the time my dad used to give us hell
for climbing up to the chimney pots on the roof of our little
whitewashed, stone house, in Scotland.
As a little boy I could’t resist the temptation and I never understood
what the big deal was all about.  And so I would climb up to the roof to
see where the smoke from our fireplace came out.
The painting concentrates on the image of the sign or plaque that hangs
on the gate post to Strawberry fields.
I thought it might be interesting to make the word, “forever”, look like
it was fading out.

3 minute video “Changing our world one corner at a time”   https://youtu.be/Bm5DIIpYmAE

Lyrics:
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/beatles/strawberry+fields+forever_10026540.html

Youtubes of the song:

Beatles version 1967
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsziB3cBGKI

Sergeant Pepper costumes version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51RUnAxqvp8

Across the Universe version 2007:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN9iogpzVhc