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Just wanted to share one of my latest mixed media drawings with you. I had such fun creating this piece. It is part of my exhibition "Roots to Wings" on view at Hashi's Fine Art Gallery in historic Hanapepe town on Kauai through Friday, January 31, 2020.
As always there is some general idea of what I want to express but the fun comes when I prepare the sheet of archival paper or canvas with a wash of bistre, a pigment made from the soot of burned walnut shells.
Paying close attention to the process, the work begins.... I see a line, a shape or form and I add to the piece using different drawing and mark making techniques to tell the story.
Weave your own story as the viewer: the movement or "current" is upward....
Earthbound, airborne....
Roots to Wings IV, mixed media on paper.
20" x 12"
How serendipitous it is for an artist to receive the gift of "full circle" for his or her work. This happened to me a week ago when I was doing my turn of 'sitting' the gallery and this very alive woman, about my age, I think, walks in and is really touched by my work. She was a collector from the San Francisco Bay area and we made an instant connection on different levels... Not only did she "get" the work but was moved by it to the point of making a purchase of the last drawing I had finished for this new show "Roots to Wings".
The piece, like most of my art work, tells a story about the cycle of life and transformation. Here expressed with the movement from earth and darkness and roots to air, light and wings. From cocoon to butterfly.... not an easy, painless journey....
I felt the joy and reward of experiencing my creative gifts "gone full circle".
A new decade! A new normal and some of it expressed in a showing of new work, my first solo feature show in almost a decade...
This last decade was a tough one: I walked the Lewy Body Dementia journey with my husband of almost 30 years and stopped really being in the creative flow for a while.... But I am back!!!
The above piece is called FREE. Inspired by several things; meditative labyrinth walks, the cycle of life, the breaking of the bonds of suffering, the Hawaiian witch moth (ascalapha odorata) purported to appear after the death of a loved one to ??? And that is indeed how it happened in our case!
You can see this work during the month of January at
www.HashisFineArtGallery.com
I will be at the gallery on Thursdays 12-4;30 pm or email me for more info.
