'Tempest in a Teacup' Watercolours

‘Tempest in a Teacup’

From my surreal collection.

A small watercolour painting.

There is so much to see in this

complicated watercolour painting.

The five People are equally important in this storytelling.
Are there two guardians at the gate protecting?

Are the two people at the top advising the person to take the wrong path.
So much imagery in this watercolour painting.

What of the Butterfly?

It took such a lot of thought to get the characters playing in the part.

Cicero, in the first century BC, in his De Legibus, used a similar phrase in Latin, possibly the precursor to the modern expressions, Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo ut dicitur Gratidius, translated: "For Gratidius raised a tempest in a ladle,

unframed
measures 24x 35 cms