FH398 Four Horizons VI (change)
10 x 14" acrylic, ink, collage on canvas
Private collection
FH398 descriptionFour Horizons Series
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27 October, 2009
15 June, 2009
A393 Token VI (caregiver)
A393 Token VI (caregiver)
10x8" acrylic and prisma colour on board
Private collection
The Token theme is about the almost magical moments and events in our lives, often repeating, that can become symbolic to us. When a crisis arises, these tokens seem to fall from the sky; someone takes care of us, or something or someone suddenly appears to make us smile. Something special happens, or something doesn't happen (also gratifying, in some cases). Sometimes we don't notice them, little golden bits in almost every day. A smile. A word. The plaintive song of a bird. Moments of peace.
If we were to make a pile of all the little tokens we have ever received or found and count them, it would be shocking to see how many we collect in our lives, and how easily they roll away to hide in drawers or under other things, how easily they become tarnished. But if we all made a stack of them, if would be a mighty tower. It would make us look up.
Anomaly Series
14 May, 2009
A392 Artist & Anomaly V
A392 Artist & Anomaly V
24x18" acrylic, pastels, pencils
private collection
This is a lost and found work. I did not have it recorded in my catalogue, and had not taken a picture of it. One day my friend Deb visited, and she brought the picture with her. I had given it to her daughter and then forgotten it completely. So here it is, slightly out-of-place, since there were no other numbers available for it, and I can't quite make out the date. The picture surprised me...what was I thinking when I did it? I think I was simply enjoying the shapes and colours and patterns. Maybe it's my child artist, surrounded by her creative aura.
Anomaly Series
08 May, 2009
A390 Token V (speckled bird)
A390 Token V (speckled bird)
10x8" acrylic and prisma colour on board
Private collection
The speckled birds appeared in a vivid dream after I finished chemo. I (dreamed I) was lying in bed, peacefully free of care and pain. A flock of colourful spotted birds sat on me and the blankets, cooing and chirping softly. It was just me and the birds, suspended in a blissful dreamscape.
Anomaly Series
13 April, 2009
A388 Token IV (fish & raven)
A388 Token IV (fish & raven)
12x12" acrylic & prisma colours on stretched canvas
private collection
The idea for the token sequence of little paintings began with a casual challenge from my mother. We were looking at her sketchbooks, in particular the pages of medallion-shaped designs, which she originally intended for pottery. I said that I thought they would make wonderful paintings. 'Show me how you would put a round design on a square canvas,' my mother said. I made a quick sketch similar to one of her designs, and liked it so much that I
decided to paint it.
Anomaly Series
The raven is one of my familiar old creatures, and the fish is one of my mother's favourite motifs.
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26 February, 2009
A387 Token III (creature)
A387 Token III (creature)
8x10" acrylic on board
Private collection
Here the woman reaches inward, holding the creature that both torments and heals her. She recognizes and understands the process. It is another step forward.
Anomaly Series
25 January, 2009
28 March, 2006
01 January, 2005
A343 Reformation I
A343 Reformation I
24x36" acrylic on acetate
private collection
The reformation sequence is my vision of entropy at work on my own paintings.
Pointillism depicts entropy very well, as the technique in itself is a scattering of bits without contour. The widely dotted bits are more amorphous, but making enough points of colour forms a new, cohesive shape.
This is analogous to the way the artist works. An artist takes an idea, pulls it apart, and reshapes it, again and again. The new 'view' is the artist's perception, a reforming of human experience, a reiteration of what has gone before. Like the stuff of the universe, a work of art is simply recombinant forms of irreducible ideas.
This is a deconstruction of a small portion of A320, Anomalous Piercings. I was interested in how far I could push the image before it was something else entirely. That is a grey area, though, that confounds me through every series. When does a new series begin, or when indeed does a painting end? Sometimes each new idea merges with or continues the old idea so seamlessly, that the transition is almost imperceptible.
Anomaly Series
20 January, 2004
17 January, 2004
16 January, 2004
15 January, 2004
A337 Artist & Anomaly IV
A337 Artist & Anomaly IV
10x8" acrylic on glass
private collection
A pointillist study of an artist friend, France. I wanted to capture the joy and concentration of the artist at work.
Anomaly Series
14 January, 2004
04 January, 2004
01 January, 2004
A318 Sum VII
A318 Sum VII
10x8" acrylic on glass
private collection
The figure juggles several patterns she has formed, while immersed and surrounded by sequences of other patterns. The loose, perception pattern (symbolized by eyes and neurons) of her clothing, the pattern she choses to wear, contrasts with the symmetry of the background patterns. The figure doesn't 'fit in', and certainly the patterned masses she juggles do not blend in. She may be trying to make them fit somehow, or she may be keeping them separate.
Often our ideas, even our ideals, do not fit into the regular pattern of our lives, but we keep them delicately balanced, out there in front of our eyes, to remind us of what we strive to be. If we cling to one idea too long, the others must fall by the way. With concentration, however, we can keep various ideas going, sometimes for a lifetime.
Anomaly Series
28 January, 2003
A316 Sum IV
A316 Sum IV
6x6" acrylic on board
private collection
The figure is surrounded by energy patterns, and turns her face up to 'drink in' the resulting inspiration. It flows through her eyes and her mouth, images and words.
Anomaly Series
27 January, 2003
A315 Sum III
A315 Sum III
10x8" acrylic on canvas
private collection
The figure points to herself, acknowledging her personal reality. Ideas, like iterations of herself, shadow her, waiting to be incorporated (a good word in this sense) or abandoned. What interests me is that we carry ideas around with us, or they attach themselves to us, but we seem to avoid or even try to escape them. It is true that an idea must be embraced or absorbed before it can truly said to be part of our identity. And that identity is the summing up of a lifetime's worth of concepts.
Anomaly Series
26 January, 2003
A314 Sum
A314 Sum
10x8" acrylic on canvas
$65.00 (framed)
A quaint figure in a strange landscape. Ego sum...this room reaching into the outdoors. Most of my paintings twist things inside out and vice versa, or can be seen both ways. Existence, inner and outer.
Anomaly Series
25 January, 2003
A313 Sum II
A313 Sum II
7x5" acrylic on canvas
private collection
I was thinking of the word sum, which means a summing up, but also is Latin for 'I am'. The figure is both supported and partly hidden or submerged by history in the form of a fossil. But the figured is also 'enlightened' by the glowing possibilities of ideas, above.
Anomaly Series
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