Purple Defiance by Constance Widen
For “A Fascinating Purple” :
“On the 10th day of Christmas my true love sent to me
10 trees STILL standing……”
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
It’s loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness….
An endless fountain of immortal drink,
Pouring unto us from heaven’s brink.”
JOHN KEATS
This painting of Jacarandas lining the road along the wine farms in South Africa in Springtime around October each year, has been so named because of the Weed Police call to rid the country of these beautiful trees. They will remain part of the South African scenery and are deeply embedded in the peoples’ psyche forever, no matter what draconian bureaucrats decide!
I used A4 sized Canson paper, with Schmincke, Sennelier and Unison pastels.
Sold, framed to a private individual in South Africa.
30 Features on 15/05/2012:
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A Fascinating Purple
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Painter’s Universe
Fauna and Flora South Africa
South Africa Themed Red Bubble Home Page
Painting the Country Life
Indigenous the East and Southern Africa Group
The Rainbow Group
The Paint Book
Live, Love, Dream
Which Way
Fantastic Mixed Art Class (SixPix Feature)
Let There Be Light
Painters Academics
Four Letter Word
The CatRaven
Nature and Man
Challenge Winners Vault
Painted nature and Object
Superbly Visual
All Glorious Gardens
Pastels and Whites
5 C’s Easter Special Features
Mozambique and Neighbouring Countries
Quality Art and Photography
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Tags
bonnievale, countryside, jacarandas, purple, road, robertson, south africa, trees, vineyards, western cape, purple flowers, jacaranda trees, alien trees, bureaucracy
Comments
fabulous depth to this constance,and wonderful texture. I remember seeing these trees in Pretoria, always a beautiful spring colour… x
The colour is so stunning Linda, and their smell after it has rained is just awesome :-) Thank you for such a lovely comment, I’m glad that you have seen them at their very best. I also hope that the resistance against their removal continues!
– Constance Widen
Congratulations! This is so lovely I had to give it an instant feature!
Lynda thank you for the feature and commenting on my work! This is a great honour :-)
– Constance Widen
Very nice!!
Thank you for that super comment Leslie :-)
– Constance Widen
So wonderful and magical!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for that wonderful compliment :-))))
– Constance Widen
Terrific, I love this! The Jacarandas are in bloom now, just as they were when I was a student in Pretoria! I can still remember the myth: if a Jacaranda blossom falls on your head while writing exams, you would pass your year! :D
Mariaan thank you! I painted it a couple of years ago after travelling from Bonnievale to Robertson on that beautiful flower-lined road that winds through the mountains and vineyards. I think we all remember that myth, even those of us at University in Grahamstown :-) I also remember the OTHER saying which was, if you hadn’t studied by the time they were flowering you were going to fail!!!!
– Constance Widen
Very beautiful purple..deserved the feature.
Thank you for that lovely comment :-)
– Constance Widen
I like the unusual and simple style, Constance. this scene, is beautifully fresh and exquisitely painted.
Thank you for that wonderful comment Colin :-) I had been moving more towards this kind of abstraction, but now I am back to depicting photorealism as I learn to paint this beautiful country that is so new in every way to me.
– Constance Widen
so beautiful
Thank you Tori for your super comment Tori.
– Constance Widen
Great work!!!
Please consider putting this into the Which Way group
Thank you so much for your lovely comment and invitation to the Group which I would really love to do :-)
– Constance Widen
why are they being removed!?!?! i am truly puzzled!
The Weed Police have so decreed Linda :-( I have found that when politicians’ corruption is being uncovered, there is always a huge cloud of dust created to hide their misdemeanors!!!
– Constance Widen