Beachcomber - Roxanne Painting

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.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:24 W x 30 H x 2 D in

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