Description
🖼 1 of a kind original painting
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📐 44x54cm (17.3×21.2″)
🎨 acrylic on Italian canvas
Exhibited:
- Van der Plas Gallery, New York (Dec 2021)
- Nyíregyháza, Hungary (Oct 2021)
- M.A.D.S Gallery, Milan Italy (May 2021)
Artist’s Words:
This artwork was created when the purity of soul (white) met the optimism of yellow (Pantone 2021 Colour of the Year).
“I wanted to create an optimistic artwork. In colour psychology yellow is the colour of optimism, but too much yellow can have negative ‘warning’ effects. That is why I balanced it with blue which represents security and safety, and dots of red to remind the viewer to keep up their mental strength through tough times.
But something was missing, I couldn’t get the balance right, until I brought white into the picture. It was then I realised I needed to clear my head and think with a childlike purity of soul (white) to create an optimistic artwork during uncertain times.”
A poem accompanies this artwork in which the artist describes the childhood (pure) memory she recalled while creating this artwork, as she observed the painfully slow vaccination rollout in Ireland from her new home in Eastern Europe, Hungary:
Sunshine Days are Coming Poem
With purity of soul she perseveres
eager to be optimistic
almost childlike.
She searches her mind
for simpler days past.
A girl giggles in a gallant garden
unexpected blue skies
quintessential white fluffy clouds
Summer is here:
‘Get out of the house!’
Sandy blonde, home-cut fringe
tanned bare legs,
she has a look of foreign, that one!
Shoeless feet on emerald earth
skipping, twisting, twirling
in faded turquoise
happy hand-me-downs
a twig as a wand.
Wood pigeons coo lazily aloft
laurels and deep evergreens
Woosh! A cackle
and hum behind her as
cold water hits her heels.
It can’t be raining, not again!
She turns to seek the source
Ah! The garden hose!
Peering under the arc
of kaleidoscopic spray
she spies the culprit:
Brother! In all his menacing glory
Firey freckled nose scrunched
baring a shark-like toothy grin
Without a word of warning
A water fight has been declared.
Quick! Get the bucket!
The German Shepherd wags
its dark tail in approval
As it swaggers off to avoid the spray
Shouts, squeals and screams
bounce off the white house walls
Shhh! You’ll wake the baby!
Home-made excitement as
the race is on:
Who will control the tap?
Grown now, in a hose-less
bucket filled garden
further east
bare legs dance to hits past
Paint-soaked hands apply
purity in white and
huge heaving generous
swaths of optimistic yellow
as she mutters her mantra,
with a childlike innocence:
‘Sunshine Days are Coming’
