Hi,

I started my painting of The Spanish Lady-- the rough painting is here: http://mattesonart.com/the-spanish-lady.aspx

It's a bit intimidating to create an image as in Campbell's poem,

Old age has laid its hand upon me
Cold as a fire of ashy coal
And where is the lovely Spanish lady
The maid so neat about the sole?

that he remembers her so many years later. I was unable to reconcile the image of her washing her feet so I returned to the original image of the 1700s which may have been relevant to Campbell's "Spanish Lady" also. She is bathing herself with a sponge by candlelight and moonlight.

I included the two traditional stanzas on the left hand column they read:

As I went out through Dublin City,
At the hour of twelve o´clock at night,
Who should I see but a Spanish lady,
Washing her feet by candle light.

First she washed them and then she dried them,
Over a fire of ambery coal,
In all my life I never did see,
A maid so neat about the sole.

I will finish the painting soon and hope to get the other three song paintings done that I've put off for several years.

Painting has become too difficult.

Richie