EdenEden by Marilyn Wells24" x 30" oil and cold wax on wood panel, finished sides Eden was inspired by Mary Olivers poem Fireflies, especially these lines: Though Eden is lostIts lovelinessremains in the heartand the imagination Mary Oliver2601OCW In Eden, layered passages of oil and cold wax suggest a remembered paradise not as a literal garden, but as an inner landscape of longing, beauty, and luminous presence. Color, gesture, and atmosphere move