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Seashells and women are more alike than different. The most important parallel is that both seashells and women are containers of life. Each also is a mass of similar contradictions: shells, like women, are rocklike yet organic; delicate yet strong; small yet monumental; geometric yet natural; essentially similar yet infinitely variable; available yet mysterious; ranging in appearance from the seemingly ordinary to the incredibly decorated; present in abundance yet valuable beyond measure. Shells are infinitely varied and including some specimens of great beauty”–just like women! In my painting, the woman’s head is capped and protected by a painted phasianella australis, just as a sea creature might be protected by an actual phasianella. I have pressed an actual, beach-found phasianella into the paint as her nose. While I, a woman, am dedicating my life to growing as an artist, toiling in my studio making painted shells by building up of layers of multiple glazes of paint and varnish, actual shells are growing under the sea to accommodate the life inside them. These shells are being created layer by layer, just like my painted shells. Their final element, the nacre, is the iridescent pearly layer. Someday, I hope to cast an iridescent light of my own.
Original Created:2015
Subjects:Body
Materials:Canvas
Styles:FigurativeFine ArtSurrealism
Mediums:AcrylicFound Objects
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:8 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:13.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Ships From:Printing facility in California.
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As a painter, I am an explorer, uncovering, recording and rearranging the beauty of the natural world, as well as the beauty of human beings. I select and distill the very essence of my subject, harmony between nature and humanity, sometimes combining the two. This symbiosis makes the finished work even more beautiful than either of its constituents alone. When you first visit my fantasy world, you will notice a lot of extraordinary things going on in my paintings. For instance, I might substitute a bird for a hat, or a butterfly for a bowtie. These unusual substitutions function as symbols and provide subtle clues and playful suggestions about my work. The shapes of birds and hats, or butterflies and bowties, are so similar that viewers never even question the replacements. I pick the substitutes because they fit graphically and visually. But it is more than that. We as humans fit with nature. We fit together so well, in fact, that I am able to paint a natural object–a butterfly–in place of the bowtie–and viewers can see this as truth. My world will refresh you with its vibrant colors, textures, and interchangeable shapes as you immerse yourself in the integration of nature and humanity. You will be at peace with yourself and at one with nature. You will experience nature in a totally new way and see beauty in places where you never before thought to look.
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