2009
My paintings of 2009 were inspired by images I encountered while hiking with a group of senior women in the nearby mountains. I was alert, searching for subjects to paint and my attention was grabbed by the diversity of tree barks, stumps, rocks, and pieces of wood. Avoiding slowing down the hiking pace of the group, I rapidly caught with my camera as many images of interest I could. Later at home I analyzed them, expecting to learn, find and decide how to use them in my paintings.
Barksture 1
Barksture 3
Barksture 2
Shimmers
Kidlings
Tecton
Slivers
Prayer
Breaking Out
Rocky Embrace
Turquoise
Fractured Slope
Pandemorum
Springtime
Hatching Nodule
Shatter
Wings
Dream
Exploration
Breaking Through
Ancestral Wood
Stump Fantasy 2
Stump Fantasy 1
Stump Fantasy 3
Stump Fantasy 4
eafa Seattle Design Center 2009
Jones Island Rocks
After Rain
Sparse Catch
Joy Burst
“Dream” remains my favourite, as I told you last year. That delicate lace, suggesting a structure that you only can dream about, is out o this world. It’s fluid and solid, chilly and warm, inner and outer – a perfect balance.
“Dream” is my favorite too!… Albeit I was not able to articulate so well the reasons why. Testing a link.
Thanks for the tip, Raz. I tried a link today and didn’t work but I guess why. I try it again right here.
Thank you Doina, you are generous. Yes, you told me before that you like it. I like it too, but there was something that stop me painting in that direction. I used acrylic paste for texture and a lot of surface details “ads on” which I decided to avoid for the time I am still learning basics. I did not want to spent time on tricks, hiding my inexperience. I wanted bare truth, being able to see at once my shortages. I am sure that at some point I will go back to it and try to revive that feeling in a series of canvases.
Well, you don’t have to do what you don’t feel like to. But you’re talking about “tricks”, “inexperience”, “learning basics” that are not related at all to that particular picture, nor to what you’ve painted after. You’re maybe lacking self-confidence, not experience. Van Gogh also carved a thick white paste under the paint and he made-up his style by that, you know.