My next project is The Scientist by Coldplay. I have liked this melody for a long time but hesitated to do it for I had recently completed a Coldplay project in 2023. I changed my mind because of the lyrics. What caught my attention are these words that the artwork will be portraying.
“Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be so hard“
Those words remind me of what I am going through trying to get this art out of storage and into the open where it belongs.

I have a problem in that I am running out of space to store artworks. I only have the lower level below the studio, and I have filled it up with over 200 works. With the effort of my son-in-law, who is good at building anything out of wood, we found and he built a space to store more works. In the image above the lower floor is already in use and full. What is new is the added second level, that is eight by eight feet in size that should handle of couple of years of additional works.

After seeing the painted piano in the Coldplay video, I looked around at other live performances to get a better idea of the colors that were used. I found they use several pianos of the same model, each painted differently. This made my pick of colors for the two canvases easy. I am always looking to connect the music or the artist to the artwork. It is Coldplay’s color choices for the pianos that I used to connect this artwork to Coldplay, and not the designs or words painted on the pianos.

Scott Von Holzen