(119) Googie Ann – Fragmented ecology (Australia)
1025) Lyn Kirkland – INfidelity (UK)
About this Artwork
Price: $70 AUD
My mixed media pieces are visions of ecologists that pose questions about layers and threads that run through present day realities and worlds. This work explores the personification of the trust that exists within family relationships. The piece examines the dogged faithfulness; with the Doberman as code, that often occurs between mother and child. This sense of fidelity; possessive, positive and powerful within both mother and child is hopeful and safe, by way of the warm colours, and yet fragmented by each action., thought or touch. There is a tension, a push and pull, a soft and harsh. This tension sits harshly within bold colour and pattern contrasts and yet the female’s eyes, the floating bubbles urge the viewer to calm and rest gently in the emanating shapes. One gets a sense that if you peeled back this skin, layer by layer, you could come to understand the intricacies of my world.
About Googie Ann
My mixed media pieces are versions of ecologists that pose questions about layers and threads that run through present-day realities and worlds. Inspired by the natural world, my work explores how human, animal and the psychological might co-exist. My rigorous and ruminative works reconfigure our own understanding of the connections we have and make with all that exists around us and within us, asking us to enter that conceptual space where reality is created. The sometimes simplicity to my work is deceptive. One gets the sense that if you peeled back this skin, layer by layer; you could come to understand the intricacies of my world. There is one side where I know what I want to make and then another where I am propelled by my emotions, experiences, expectations, worldly delights and formal elements. These works seem to evolve by way of happenstance and and yet they expose my consummating playfulness with process.
Link to Googie Ann’s Art Aviso profile HERE
Googie Ann was supplied with the following page from Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopedia:
Volume 7
Great painters of all Nations- How they lived and what they achieved.
Fidelity.
About this Artwork
Price: 150 EUR
Page 69 of Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge is a reproduction of the work of 18th Century French painter Jean-Baptiste Greuze’s painting entitled ‘Fidelity’.
Greuze specialised in ‘genre’ paintings portraying idealised visions rather than real life. A sexual innocence, lost or defended. Doe-eyed girls repeated on many occasions, carefully staged, with moralising titles such as ‘Fidelity’. Appearing to mate a sensuality with innocence, the sitter for this painting and many others was invariably his pretty younger wife Anne-Gabrielle Babuti. In ‘Fidelity’ the devotion is suggested by her upturned, subservient face and the small dog symbolic of fidelity.
After 34 years of marriage the relationship had soured. Suggestions of her promiscuity and greed, and his fading reputation as a painter giving a wholly new complexion to this piece. My response to the original page is a heightened colourful digital painting, suggesting confidence, allure and seduction. The original pale taffeta replaced by Scarlett robes. The light blonde hair with a fiery auburn. The small dog now replaced by a winged cat, and the title doctored to reflect the possibility of a woman with secrets and passions. Each individual colour has been printed separately onto tissue paper and layered onto Fabriano paper with encaustic wax.
About Lyn
I am an encaustic artist, living and working in Dorset, UK. The history of encaustic wax painting, as used by the ancient Eqyptians, intrigues and excites me, as does its organic properties (beeswax and damar resin). My work is driven by process as much, if not more, than subject matter. I love the properties of the wax. Painting, sculpting, casting and dipping. Pushing it to see where it will take me next. At a time when access to my Studio and encaustic tools was denied me due to lockdown, I have found a new fascination with iPad sketching, enjoying the portability and ease with which painting mediums of oil and water for instance, can be merged digitally, where in life it would not be encouraged. The logical progression for me to merge my digital imagery with encaustic paint for this exhibition has been an exciting journey. Retelling a story from a different perspective, marrying the ancient with the modern.
Link to Lyn’s Art Aviso profile HERE
Lyn was supplied with the following page from Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopedia:
Volume 7
Great painters of all Nations- How they lived and what they achieved.
Fidelity.