Paintings for the Teeny Tiny Art Show at Three Graces Gallery
My teeny tiny brushes create colour and pattern, shape and shadow, line and form. They also create a feeling of fullness and completion, joyfulness and calm, problem and solution inside me.
Last week, when I was painting and painting and painting, and in between breathing and walking and remembering to eat dinner, I realised: There are some places, some times, some things that make me feel totally and completely at home inside myself, and painting is one of those things. There are moments when I feel as though I am inhabiting all the space inside this body, all the air passing in and out of my lungs, all the muscles and veins and tendons, and I am well and truly home.
There is so much more I notice when I am truly at "home":
- the sun has moved just slightly in the sky, and no longer streams blindingly in through the front windows as it did a month ago
- turquoise, while still my favourite, seems to have been eclipsed by golden yellows this time around
- there is lots of noise in the quiet
- often times when thinking a thought out to it's very conclusion, I end up with several more things to think about
- people who eat dinner on the patio at the restaurant next door sing happy birthday songs, a lot, and like to mimic operatic voices, and I sing along, softly, from my studio
- gray is almost always so much more than you think it is
Yes, Liz. You have captured exactly how I feel when I am working in my studio. You've described it beautifully. I have been dyeing tons of fabric for new work and working with clay for the last two months. Total bliss. Besides my husband's cooky smile, the only other thing that makes me happy like this is reading a wonderful book.
Posted by: Deborah | August 20, 2010 at 06:03 AM
Oh....those paintings look looooovely, and you've captured so many wonderful tiny details here. I feel like I am right there with you. I was able to sneak away to the studio for only two hours this week, but they were two hours of BLISS....home indeed.
Posted by: Swirly | August 20, 2010 at 02:35 PM
I love grey. It is so much more than you think.
Posted by: Mary Lou | August 20, 2010 at 08:19 PM
teeny tiny goodness! love your paintings and you totally nailed it for me too. I love to create in many different mediums but I am truly "at home" when I am painting. Every feeling and sensation is heightened. I am not only at peace with myself but also with my environment and anything and everything that passes in my thoughts. It is a lovely place to be.
Posted by: Kristen | September 05, 2010 at 10:25 PM