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I decided to become an artist when I fell in love with a painting. I’d been in love before, but never with something mysteriously moving. It was abstract, yet figurative. On the bottom was a trace of glitter. This was a love- letter. Ever since reading it, I’ve been trying to write back. Sometimes my paintings emerge fully formed, other times, I make ‘mistakes.’ But I always remember the first time I tuned a guitar, the sound was most confusing right before it snapped into harmony. It’s the same with paintings. And maybe even with love.When I’m finished it feels like the right thing has been spoken — something I wouldn’t mind sharing with my glittery friend (or with you).http://lamantiagallery.com/fineart/paintercathynichols.html www.cathynichols.blogspot.com |
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| SONG: "A Song for You" |
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This painting is actually a song of gratitude between the bird to the tree. The bird is chirping its little tune and sending out love to the tree for being its home. The tree responds to this loving melody by blooming into flower. In the original painting, I affixed a sparkly rhinestone into the flower on the tree to symbolize the shining feelings of happiness experienced by the tree when listening to the bird’s song.
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| TREE: "Forever Falling Tree" |
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This piece was inspired by a high school memory of carving the name of myself and my sweetheart in a tree. It was a fall day under a cloudless sky, and we used his swiss army knife to sketch our names into an old oak tree. When I started doing encaustic painting, I thought about how easily the soft, textural wax could be carved with a metal stylus, and it immediately reminded me of carving that tree so many years ago.
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| BEGINNING: "Only the Beginning" |
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The feeling, theme and title of this painting are directly inspired by listening to the old Chicago song "Beginnings." Music is one of my greatest inspirations, and this song lifts my heart and makes me happy. I actually free-form sketched this painting into wax while listening to the song. It has lots of flowers and springtime imagery, I guess because it is about "beginnings" when everything is first alive and in bloom years ago. With this thought, inspiration was born for my "forever falling tree."
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| BLUE SKIES |
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I painted “Blue Skies Ahead” just as the blue skies of spring were peeking through winter’s gray horizon. I have a real birdhouse like this outside my studio window that feeds many brightly colored visitors. I know spring is here when I hear them singing as I work.
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