"Ancient Magic," 7" x 12", acrylics on museum quality panel. $499 plus s&h. The scanned image appears much flatter than the original painting, which features layers of transparent and opaque color, including a generous amount of metallic and mica dense pigment which flash and reflect the light. There is a short video here which you can get a stronger sense of the depth to the painting. I accept personal checks, paypal, venmo and payment plans. Inquiries can always come to me.
I'm still lounging about – this sinus bit has been going on for 3 weeks now, and yesterday my stomach started acting up. All in all, it mandated yet another pajama day, which was a huge bummer because I missed out on my critique groups' gathering. Boo hiss. But this afternoon I felt well enough to spend a little time at the easel, toying with an idea I started exploring yesterday, and I had to share the results, they were so pleasing. At least to me.
I am painting moments. Not the sort of moment captured with a camera, perfectly in focus and well lit, but the kind of moment one has tucked away - a memory or a feeling that's blurry around the edges and tough to articulate. Was it an actual experience? something imagined? the remnants of another's story? Does that even matter, the source of the sensation that seared itself into my heart?
I'm thinking about my personal connection with horses. It's always been there, even though I have rarely ridden, never taken lessons, nor owned one. My moments with equines are stolen ones, admiring from afar, cleaning chicken coops and mucking stalls so as to love on others' ponies, reading everything I can find about anything having to do with horsemanship, and spending a lifetime creating images of this animal that is, oddly enough, a very minor player in my physical life.
Part of this exploration stems from an online class I'm taking – Fonda Clark Haight's The Down Deep – where she has us tapped into our subconscious, allowing that to steer our mark making. But I also see these recent paintings (not just the two from this weekend, but the equines which have surfaced frequently in the past months) as a visualization of what we might actually be able to see were our eyes and hearts entirely opened. Auras, energy, history, passion, shared experiences – if these things were laced together alongside the actual object, how might they look?
Who knows if my paintings are an accurate rendering of that answer. All I know is that I have to continue to make them and figure this out for myself.
Thanks so very much for following along with my work.
May you be enjoying the season surrounded by love and laughter,
And no germs!!
Warmly, Kim
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