Autumn is a time to reflect on things of beauty and change.
In my garden, the leaves on trees are changing from the brightness of Summer greens to golden yellow, crimson and brown. They create a brightness that is joyful however melancholy underlies the mood as cold weather looms.
Inside my home, the days light is welcome after long nights. This small, quick painting of my bedroom was inspired by the mood of golden, glowing light and seasons change.
Flying over the equator.
The Dying Slave and the Rebellious Slave Louvre Museum Paris
The Rebellious Slave
Ana Mendieta was a Cuban American artist who created performance art, sculpture, paintings, and videos.
My favourite of her works is her Silueta Series (1973-80), which she called “earth-body” sculptures, made from her body leaving a silhouette on the ground, sometimes by indent, sometimes covered in ash or blood or leaves, or by constructing the female form out of sticks or wax.
I find them haunting because she died in 1985, aged 36, and they remind me of graves.
To me her works symbolise a relationship between person and earth, a giving and taking, a mutual consequence, a connection.
I find them beautiful, because often we forget our connectedness with things all around us, not just the earth, but with other people, with families, with history, with ideas, even with the different parts of ourselves. We feel alone and arrogant or alone and meaningless.
But Mendieta’s works are a tangible…
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Sarah in dappled light
I’m on a learning curve with painting foliage; I’ve painted then reworked then painted again till my eyes became blurry. I wish I knew how it was done as I feel like there must be an easier way to paint foliage. I think I could keep reworking but for now I’m stopping and will add it to my folio. This is the second last exercise for this unit 🙂
The next one is from a photo I took last year on a walk up Mt Ainslie.
Luxembourg Gardens winter trip 2013
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