However the works went from being an investigation of generic ‘love’ to a personal exploration. As I painted, the human subjects became less important and the landscapes more so. It was a transformation from being to becoming. My main inspiration and nucleus of this exhibition comes from my childhood, which is reflected in the paintings as myths from child-hood experiences.
When I was little I lived at the beach with my mother. So that the little girls wouldn’t swim too far out, a myth was told of the Goddess of the Sea at Montañita. She was a mermaid - a beautiful and lonely woman who was in a constant wait for a girl to swim too far out, so that she could reach out to the surface and pull her back to keep her company.
Myths such as these are the source of many of the paintings, and it is from these childhood stories that my irrevocable love for the sea was born. The sea is depicted in my paintings in many different states, as an element and as a source of life.
Yet as I painted, there appeared to be more than sea and this was the earth and the sky – each embracing the other - one solid, one fluid and the other ephemeral.
So the theme takes a new turn - conversion; conversion of ocean beings, of earth beings, of sky beings, of worlds and of the elements themselves. So then the theme is transformation - a metamorphosis of elements that honors the human essence. Because we are ocean, earth and sky, we fuse with one another and with our environment.
We look for a balance to make us stable and beautiful, and we break down continually, to recombine, over and over again.
Hour Glass Acrylics
Land, Sea and Sky - Meeting Oils
Sinking Heart Oils
Land, Sea and Sky - Embrace Oils
Land, Sea and Sky - A Man Crying Oils
Wraith at Montanita Oils
Land and Sea - A Kiss Oils
Siren at Montanita Acrylics
Two Women at Sea Oils
Crying Girls at the Sea Oils TO VIEW MORE COTOPAXI ART CLICK 'OLDER POSTS'
