Like many artists, the Asheville painter Julyan Davis didn't feel much like painting this past spring, at the dawn of the pandemic. "I actually got quite depressed because I felt there was this extraordinary chance for the world to think, and I certainly didn't want to paint about it," he said. So Davis thought a bit, read the news a lot and, around June, began connecting the dots between what he wants to say on canvas and the times we're in. Davis' COVID paintings, as he calls them, are surrealist and mysterious, and they draw their dark, windswept color pallet and many of their old Appalachian settings from an earlier Davis' series he calls his "Murder Ballad" paintings.

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