Earth 2 oil on canvas 20x20cm
Hello everyone! Just to let you know there's an exhibition being run by the very energetic, enthusiastic, and bubbly Karen Harper, irishcraftsupdate.com/blog, starting this week and going until the 23rd on the top floor of Dunlaoire shopping centre. There are 20 artists and photographers involved, myself included, please come along to the opening on Thursday 13th December at 7pm for some inspiration and festive fun!
This painting really comes alive when you stand well back from it, for me it evokes the intensity of colour you find in nature when its raining or has just rained. The water on the earth changes its colour, imagine the hard dry earth and then what happens as the water slowly penetrates it...the earth has relaxed you could say become something more than it was... a place where its easy and nurturing for new life to grow. And stones, rocks, the bones of the earth, the bones that we can touch, the wet bones surrounded by moist glistening velvety moss, a sensous experience indeed. Imagine walking through the woods at that moment when the rain has just stopped, the water has intensified the smell of everything, as you walk among the trees on the rusty brown the bounce of the earth here is incredible and the smell of it as each footprint you make releases the heady smell of whats below into your nostrils. You come across a part of the wood higher up with rock protruding here and there in the ground different types of moss surrounding some and covering others. The contrast of textures of the smooth hard rock and the rich soft moss are extremely pleasurable. Nature is a continous source of inspiration and delight for me. Thankyou for reading and I'll be back soon. Sheena
ps: if you're in Dublin check out the vegetarian restaurant Cornacopia on Wicklow st, they have a wonderful exhibition of small paintings going on there for the next two months, see if you can spot mine its called EAT ME!
