Carmel Boone, Little Big Box Series 4

Description

Carmel Boone
Little Big Box Series 4
Mixed media, acrylic on canvas
300 x 300 mm
$400

I was mandated from travel. He was just 4. I said goodbye for a month, cried a world of tears, let go my grasp on everything, watched him board the silver bird to fly 6,000 miles away, bought a canvas, so big I had to strap it to the roof of my car, got home, picked up a brush, and started to paint… I was 49 . . . following my own personal instructions, one step at a time, creativity unfurls, frond by frond, just likeNature, it always knows what to do next. . . Drawn to large scale work, and dipping my toes in the small, I dance with mixed media and acrylic paint, inspired by the natural pace of nature and the eternal winds of change. My work, laden with texture and richness, is steeped in the unfurling fronds of life transition and the stories that would otherwise never be told. This art, a purée of play, exploration, doubt, joy, uncertainty and curiosity, weaves it’s way through my home which has become studio, gallery, sanctuary, cocoon… the womb of my crone, the wisening of my inner mother and her art.. all dance together here, in the soup of life, rewriting the future, one step at a time. I call it Collaborative Abstract Art: each piece, a conversation with the cavas, an excavation of the eternal now, layer upon layer, revealing and concealing, until the painting is found, a message disclosed, dialogue complete, the canvas now free to share it’s story with it’s viewer, to express in, the creation and transformation of spaces, places and whole lives.