24" x 24" x 1.5"
Sumptuously painted in a technique consisting of free-flowing wave-like patterns held in check by subtly controlled washes of glaze and exacting trompe l'oeil floras and shells, my floral-spiral paintings exemplify the theme and style indicative of my ongoing body of work, the "Luminosity Series."
Although I used the nautilus shell, lotus and the Chinese jade disc bi in my early paintings, I have revived my use of bisected nautilus shell and various floral motifs and given them a more contemporary feel though my use of a contrasting scheme and expressive colors. In my recent series, I have created an asymmetrical composition by off-setting the circular shapes of the primary spiral of the nautilus shell and the floral images against the angular edges of the squared off canvas. Further interest is added to the composition through the articulation of the nautilus shell's segments and the structure of natural flora. I achieve a feeling of dramatic motion by obliterating portions of my ornately patterned objects by merging them with a background of sweeping ribbons, rippling draping, folding petal veins, floating seashells, and dancing stripes. My composition is supported by a dense spatial field of interpreted interactions of forms and patterns found in nature. These patterns include repetitive clusters of meandering lines and portioned color filled areas that suggest ambiguous space. Rhythmic movement is created from a simultaneous growth and dissolution of both shell and flora with the background. A sense of fundamental transformation for which no beginning and end can be discovered evolves from this body of work. Contrasting colors with meandering lines, and precisely rendered floral images and improvised random patterns, add to the feeling of engagement with rather than separation from my life experience of Eastern and Western cultures and transcendental belief in Taoism and Zen Buddhism.
Life is full of contradictions and so is art. Just as with everything else in life, the images in my painting appear to have fluid meanings and even to take on different physical characteristics when one contemplates the image as a whole. On one level, my paintings can also be considered visual interpretations of the Taoist order of nature and Buddhist spiritual enlightenment because my paintings reflect the spirit or essence of the Buddhist/Taoist belief that there exists a harmonious wholeness and eternal order that connects human beings to nature and to the Yin and Yang forces that govern the cosmos. On the other hand, vibrant color adds to the feeling of engagement with rather than abstraction from my bicultural life experience. My representational-imaginative floral-spiral paintings are about new sensory experience mingled with memories of familiar old one. My art is about the experience of transition, a sense of the bitter-sweet—of the time in-between—a feeling of the loss for the past that left behind, and the excitement of the new phase in my life.
$4000.00
Sumptuously painted in a technique consisting of free-flowing wave-like patterns held in check by subtly controlled washes of glaze and exacting trompe l'oeil floras and shells, my floral-spiral paintings exemplify the theme and style indicative of my ongoing body of work, the "Luminosity Series."
Although I used the nautilus shell, lotus and the Chinese jade disc bi in my early paintings, I have revived my use of bisected nautilus shell and various floral motifs and given them a more contemporary feel though my use of a contrasting scheme and expressive colors. In my recent series, I have created an asymmetrical composition by off-setting the circular shapes of the primary spiral of the nautilus shell and the floral images against the angular edges of the squared off canvas. Further interest is added to the composition through the articulation of the nautilus shell's segments and the structure of natural flora. I achieve a feeling of dramatic motion by obliterating portions of my ornately patterned objects by merging them with a background of sweeping ribbons, rippling draping, folding petal veins, floating seashells, and dancing stripes. My composition is supported by a dense spatial field of interpreted interactions of forms and patterns found in nature. These patterns include repetitive clusters of meandering lines and portioned color filled areas that suggest ambiguous space. Rhythmic movement is created from a simultaneous growth and dissolution of both shell and flora with the background. A sense of fundamental transformation for which no beginning and end can be discovered evolves from this body of work. Contrasting colors with meandering lines, and precisely rendered floral images and improvised random patterns, add to the feeling of engagement with rather than separation from my life experience of Eastern and Western cultures and transcendental belief in Taoism and Zen Buddhism.
Life is full of contradictions and so is art. Just as with everything else in life, the images in my painting appear to have fluid meanings and even to take on different physical characteristics when one contemplates the image as a whole. On one level, my paintings can also be considered visual interpretations of the Taoist order of nature and Buddhist spiritual enlightenment because my paintings reflect the spirit or essence of the Buddhist/Taoist belief that there exists a harmonious wholeness and eternal order that connects human beings to nature and to the Yin and Yang forces that govern the cosmos. On the other hand, vibrant color adds to the feeling of engagement with rather than abstraction from my bicultural life experience. My representational-imaginative floral-spiral paintings are about new sensory experience mingled with memories of familiar old one. My art is about the experience of transition, a sense of the bitter-sweet—of the time in-between—a feeling of the loss for the past that left behind, and the excitement of the new phase in my life.
$4000.00