How to create a new world

As the veil falls

they show the cruelty behind their words.

1000 voices ignored.

If we cannot share the same truths

How do we create a future ?

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What's the series about?

The intention...

This series started as a simple exploration of colour, form and joy. Foxgloves are one of my favourite flowers after all.

..and the outcome

Yet scrolling through the news every day has filled me with rage about war, sexual abuse of children and exploitation of the many by the few. Unwittingly these paintings took on a more sinister form than my initial intention.

Gallery

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foxgloves 1 (15 x 15cm)
A small study of foxgloves
Foxgloves 2 (15 x 15cm)
Foxgloves 3 (15 x 15cm)
A small study of foxgloves in encaustic
Foxgloves (15 x 15cm)
The fourth in a series of small studies of foxgloves. As the series continued the forms became more abstracted and evocative of mouths.
A strange kind of silence (30 x 30cm)
The mood in the undergrowth (40 x 50cm)
The foxgloves are no longer willing to be silent. Their anger is showing.
Murmers set the scene (40x50cm)
The foxgloves have something to say about what's going on and they don't look happy.
On repeat (40 x 50 cm)
Encaustic painting of daisies fading from a front row of beauty into an unending field.
Then snowdrops (40 x 50cm)
Snowdrops huddle together on a cold dark night. Yet even in the ice their presence tells us Spring is on its way.
Darkening times (40 x 50cm)
Mixed media painting of foxgloves. Foxgloves stretch into the distance in a dim shadowed light. A dark mood
1000 voices (50 x 60cm)
No-one is listening. The foxgloves have now started to shout their truth. someone needs to listen. Encaustic painting.