Art & music often connects. Music is sometimes an inspiration to art and creativity awakes when you listen to music when you paint.

Oil, acrylic & oil chalk on canvas "By the rivers of Babylon". 100x90 cm. (39,37 x 35,43 Inches).

I felt a deep sence of melancholy during the autumn, but it was an inspirational kind of melancholy (I know it sounds contradictory), that inspired me paint this painting. During the prosess I started to sing an old song that was a disco hit by Boney M when I was younger. When I was seaching for the words in the song I knew it was about Zion, the melancholy I felt was becouse I feel ”home-sick” missing Zion. Sweden is incredibly beautiful, and I am grateful to live here. but Zion is my true home.

Rivers of Babylon is originally a rocksteady song (written by Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton with the Jamaican vocalist trio The Melodians). The song based on Psalm 137 and Psalm 19:14, see below.

Psalm 137:1-6

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion. We hung our harps upon the poplars. For there our captors made us sing and our tormentors made us entertain, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion.” How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a foreign land?

If I forget you, O Jerusalem,

Psalm 19:14

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strenght, and my redeemer.

The original painting can be purchased at singulart.com