“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. “
- Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio
easy heart and soul
whisper of being in dreams
a smile and a tear
a haiku for Viola Lorraine my mother
no. 12125…strange to number a piece, but this number has particular significance to me. And…I am a numbers girl. She would have been 97 years old on the 21st of January. No longer here, but present in my heart as I worked on this painting. Appropriate inspiration, for my mother was my biggest fan in life and and major encourager of all my work. I sent it off to a another artist friend for a judgement call, her response was, “ Do you see the heart?” I didn’t, since I didn’t paint it in deliberately. But once she mentioned it, of course, there it was. The cool thing about abstract art: you see what you need.
The pieces from this series, come from a point of idealism and a sense of the ongoing creativity in abstraction of images from our environment : earth, sea, sky. Without a horizon line and with no physical reference to landscape they are a deliberate attempt to emulate the “feeling of awe and wonder” we experience when faced with our natural world. They are the bridge between heaven, earth and us, hoping to reveal a direct relationship and alignment between oneself, one’s society and nature; each constantly struggling for transformation.
