Silence will carry your voice like the nest that holds the sleeping birds.
Be still my heart, these great trees are prayers.
Rabindranath Tagore B.1861.
Indian poet and mystic.
Be still my heart, these great trees are prayers.
Rabindranath Tagore B.1861.
Indian poet and mystic.
SKETCHING ... Begins with the simple sketch where the life of the work begins. Though now unseen, it was once the life, and carries traces of its beginnings.
PAINTING ... Calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves under the shadow of natural objects, and to fix them with the hand, presenting to plain sight.
Cennini d'Andrea Cennini B.1360. "Il Libra dell'Arte"
THOUGHTS BEHIND THIS PAINTING ... "A Song for Trees and Rain"
A tiny nest of a yellow robin found in deep forest. Bejewelled with moss and lichen, and strips of paper-bark from the melaleuca in which it sat, this found the earth colours in my paintbox, and I painted it many times larger than lifesize to emphasize the worth of biodiversity, ancient forests and native trees. That is, without the canopy of these great trees there would be no yellow robins. The painting is a call, a song, for Nature. So these great trees are my prayers and my song for trees and rain.
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PAINTING ... Calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves under the shadow of natural objects, and to fix them with the hand, presenting to plain sight.
Cennini d'Andrea Cennini B.1360. "Il Libra dell'Arte"
THOUGHTS BEHIND THIS PAINTING ... "A Song for Trees and Rain"
A tiny nest of a yellow robin found in deep forest. Bejewelled with moss and lichen, and strips of paper-bark from the melaleuca in which it sat, this found the earth colours in my paintbox, and I painted it many times larger than lifesize to emphasize the worth of biodiversity, ancient forests and native trees. That is, without the canopy of these great trees there would be no yellow robins. The painting is a call, a song, for Nature. So these great trees are my prayers and my song for trees and rain.
www.suekalab.com / www. facebook.com/suekalabartist
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