Meadow Meditations 2023-NOW
This series happened by accident. I do a plein air retreat annually the last week of August. We do sunrise to sunset & everything in between. One sunset was – less than stellar but- The Light on the Grass was Amazing! It opened a whole new world to me. Grass moves, it dances, it bobs it works individually and as a group. This series moves from what I would term as detailed observation to total abstraction. My fall goal was masking fluid experimentation and Sgraffito in watercolour and acrylic .
I am working; in watercolour with masking fluid, acrylic with masking fluid as well as palette knives, scratching tools (combs, shish kebob sticks) and dowels for dots. These paintings, as a process were me looking at the challenges of individuality as well as community, groups of one type intersecting with other totally different groups, new life – timid -to large & bold , to the aged endings – withered. Grass is a metaphor for Humans, for music, for movement, for life. Can we navigate through the Grass, find our fellow groups & thrive?
View the video of this work in God Bless the Grass https://youtu.be/XDATjTCGAcc