Rooted II, 50x61 cms Oil on Canvas. May 2009
How many figures can you see?!
Again, the powerful heavy yang energy of the grand olive tree is used to capture figures, contorted and twisted in its enormous trunk. I allowed the real tree to "suggest" the figures, (the photograph or Pcard I use for each painting is attached to the back of the corresponding canvas)
Yin I perceive in the delicate leaves, turning silver in the sunlight, and so delicate and tiny in comparison.
Unfinished work, but time has sadly run out.
This is not how I feel now, but maybe how I used to feel: Rather I celebrate life energy and soar and feel a great freedom especially when painting, which is a meditation in an altered state for me. Such feelings are more poignantly portrayed in "my Love of Trees" paintings. Sadly for this competition my 2 best have sold recently