Well, here is my two pieces that I put in to the annual juried arts exhibition, and this year the theme was/is "Mix of Emotions". This one below, is a mixed media piece and its more abstract. The title of the piece is "Winter Blues" and most people (well about 99% of everyone I know), think winter blues is negative, depression and very dark. However, for me
winter blues means something totally reverse to that, to me its that one very short moment when day and night meets...
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| "Winter Blues" (True Winter Blues), in Mixed Media |
Makes no sense? well you see, when the sun goes down and the night sky creeps in, there is this magic light that covers everything that has snow on it. And it only lasts for a very short moment, everything turns this beautiful and dreamy shade of blue. And all that cold and frosty, looks warm and comforting. Its the time you stop and just breath, enjoy the view and then when its gone as fast it came... Then you go and sit back, sip tea and enjoy the warmth of a nice blanket.
In Finnish its called
"Sininen Hetkinen" and in Swedish
"Blåa Stunden" Brings back a lot of memories from my childhood days in Scandinavia.
Any how, Winter Blues, didn't make it in to the show (maybe if the jury had heard my artist statement, they would have understood the title more and the thought behind it... Or maybe one of them were fighting their own winter blues... Who knows).
But not all so blue and not everything can make it...
However, my other piece
"Struggle" made it and its in
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| "Struggle" water colour & Ink |
If you have seen some of my past work, then you might have noticed that there is few things I love to paint and draw... It is barns and umbrellas, so I tried to think of an emotion that is a struggle, and why not fighting Mother Nature. You just never know what she will hit you with and many times its hard to fight back. But you can fight and it might be a hard struggle at times, but if you hold on you might just make it (kind of reminds me the nasty thunder storm I had to live through last summer while we were out on a canoe trip, it scared the living lights out of me (no pun intended).
The Mix of Emotions" exhibition will open up on February 16 at the Trinity Gallery, Shenkmans Arts Centre.
Happy first of February everyone!!
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