Artist: Howard Lyon
Title: The Anticipation of Demeter
Medium: Oils
Size: 9x12
Artist Statement: Persephone's powerful mother, Demeter, made a compromise that saved the world. She would let Persephone live with Hades for 6 months of the year as long as she could come back to her for the other 6. In return, she would not withhold her powers to make crops grow during the time Persephone was with her.