A little plus. Some time ago I entered a self portrait in an Ovendenarts online competition!! A book has been published of some of the entries, (compiled by Craig Kerrecoe), including this.
You can see a preview of the first 15 pages or so of the book on the publisher’s website:
http://beautifulcariadbooks.com/
or http://ovendenart.com/
Line and bird have met in the middle. I feel that these paintings resolve something. They retain uncertainty, but in the context of the images. Juxtaposition of bird and line creates for me a visual and felt dynamic. Found as they are lying where they died, the possible violence of their end is at odds with their continuing gentleness of form… I wonder if there is a sense of loss somewhere in still living birds?
Painter, sometime blogger.
