The Blue of Time
Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 cm. Painted wrap around edges, ready to hang. Shipping included in the UK.
Inspired by the amazing Adam Curtis film about the machine, I wanted to explore the myth we’ve been sold that nature balances itself. This is not true, nature changes, adapts and survives. So this series of four paintings is about connecting in oneself and the survival and rejuvenation of the spirit.
I decided to chose the titles early on and work into them, inspired by books I was reading at that time. I set myself a challenge of limiting myself to using three tricky colours - pthalo blue, quinacridone red and lemon yellow, plus black and white.
I wanted to have the ancient goddesses in the early layers, overlaid with modern day ‘goddesses’. I am interested in exploring the feminine principle as it relates to both men and women.
In this painting the colour of deep ice glimpsed in the depths of crevasses…at the calving faces of glaciers where bergs of 100,000 year old ice surge to the surface of fjords from far below the water level. Inspired by the book ‘Underland’ by Robert McFarlane where he talks about the bias against depth. To see more deeply the same three tasks recur across cultures and epochs - to shelter what is precious, to yield what is valuable and to dispose of what is harmful.
Historically we are given a gendered version of the Underland - Orpheus seeking Eurydice, Heracles following Alcestis, Ariadne helps Theseus negotiate the labyrinth and then is abandoned, Creon threatens to entomb Antigone alive, Hades imprisons Persephone. Maybe it's time to excavate that myth.
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