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Kerry's Gallery
Kerry:
--- Quote from: injest on May 05, 2009, 11:49:13 pm ---how interesting!! a mixture of styles? I get a sense of a voluptious woman and sensuality..
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Funny you should say that, Jess. That's a pretty good description of the woman who bought it. Maybe she recognized something of herself there on the canvas.
Kelda:
--- Quote from: Kerry on May 06, 2009, 02:54:46 am ---Funny you should say that, Jess. That's a pretty good description of the woman who bought it. Maybe she recognized something of herself there on the canvas.
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I also get that too Jess, so perhaps the buyer did!
sel:
Like Injest and Kelda I also get the impression of a very voluptuous and sensual woman.
I like that the painting looks like pieces of a puzzles put together in no particular order, which, I think, makes the woman even more sensual, as the viewer has to use his/her imagination to figure what she would actually look like.
I'll take it that the red with white dots in it represents the beam of light like in your previous painting.
Kerry:
--- Quote from: sel on May 08, 2009, 04:25:06 am ---I'll take it that the red with white dots in it represents the beam of light like in your previous painting.
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That is correct, Sel. Imagine motes of dust in a beam of light.
Kerry:
I painted this portrait of my mother not long after my father passed away. Mum was in deep mourning. It was a sad time for all the family, but especially so for my mother. To say it’s not a happy painting would be a mastery of understatement. It encapsulates not only the grief my mother was then experiencing, but also the state of my own world just then. This painting is very precious to me. It is essentially a loving and deeply personal remembrance of my mother, but also a memento mori - a subtle reminder, hanging there on the wall in my home, that all things are transitory and impermanent and that one day I too will die. If my home was ablaze and I could only take three items with me from the burning building, this portrait of my beloved mother would be one of the three items I would choose to take. It is painted with an appropriately somber palette in oils on canvas and is 61x51cm (24x20in). It may be necessary to scroll over --> to see the complete image.
“Portrait of the Artist’s Mother”
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