This past spring I took a workshop and one of the instructors said "You are all over the place!". Which is true. So many things seem to interest me. And it was suggested that I work on a series to help me to focus. And I do have to say it is helping me to become a better artist. The series is called, loosely, Places of Worship. I did some sketches and then put brush to canvas to see where it would lead me. These are the first in this series.
My Lady's Crypt was the first in this series. I really like the receding arches. And when I was at a street fair, watching a friend perform his songs, there was an older woman wandering around. I just had to place her in the painting.
My Lady's Crypt
8" x 10"
Acrylic on Canvas
I really seem inordinately fond of trees. I took the same concept from My Lady's Crypt and used the trees to form the arches.
Crypt Memory
10" x 10"
Acrylic on Canvas
I wanted to take the tree format a bit further and while driving into work one day noticed how the mist swirled around the trees. Taking that idea, this is what developed.
Dream Crypt
18" x 18"
Oil on Canvas
18" x 18"
Oil on Canvas
I am still working with trees! The thought of a holy place, long abandoned, captured my imagination. And it seemed to me a natural progression that a tree would take root in that space.
Abiding Prayer
8" x 10"
Acrylic on Canvas
I took the same picture, really, and wanted to open up the space a bit.
Eternal Prayer
16' x 20"
Oil on Canvas
The idea of a ritual object, that focuses prayer also interests me. Thus the orb in these next two.
Ritual Perception
8" x 10"
Acrylic on Canvas
Again, I wanted to open up the space. Or, rather to "focus" the space so that it appears to be a path towards perception.
The Path of Perception
20" x 20"
Oil on Canvas
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