My magical realist portraits
depict a playful engagement with nature in her guise as the eternal feminine.
Allegorical figures wear honeycomb garb, butterfly crowns, and caterpillar
necklaces. Last summer's leaves are raiment for their decorative pleasure,
metaphoric compost for the eye. Mythopoetic headgear is often entomological,
hats display life cycles, food sources and sometimes predators as well.
As a child I was entranced by the
tiny worlds which flourished in the back yard, realms of bees with their royal
families, worm like caterpillars who sprouted fairy wings and took flight, the
heroic odysseys of the birds who reappeared in the spring. Immersed in fairy
tales and myth I gave these creatures human traits. Years later these early
fascinations with narrative, myth and wonderment reappeared in my painting.
Delight is sufficient reason to proceed, and so I have.
La voici dans son studio de Santa Fé :
elle se représente
en reine des abeilles :
en reine des abeilles :
et se revêt de colliers
de métamorphoses de papillons
de métamorphoses de papillons
voici le Monarque, elle s'y connait, ses chenilles, chrysalides et adultes sont parfaits |
ce n'est pas Graellsia, mais luna ! |
sur son site, en reine des abeilles a-t-elle épousé un bourdon ?
la réponse est oui !
|
Psyché est partout
je n'ai pas fini de vous la montrer !