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/ “*Piper Nigrum” is part of the Tropics Collection...Watercolour on Fabriano Paper…see others below.. Pungent and aromatic, piper nigrum (black pepper) has been grown in Southern India for more than two thousand years… The fruit, here shown growning on the vine, and known as a peppercorn when dried, is a small drupe five millimetres in diameter, dark red when fully mature, containing a single seed. / Along with other spices, it changed the course of world history, leading to the European efforts to find a sea route to India and consequently colonial occupation of that country, as well as the discovery and colonization of the Americas. Pepper was so valuable that it was often used as collateral or even currency. / Dried ground pepper is one of the most common spices in European cuisine, having been known and prized since antiquity for both its flavour and its use as a medicine. The spiciness of black pepper is due to the chemical piperine. Ground black peppercorn, usually referred to simply as “pepper”, may be found on nearly every dinner table in many parts of the world. Wiki…. / / / / / / /
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/ “Evergreen” is part of the Winter collection...Watercolour on Fabriano Paper…see samples below… / It stands alone in authenticity / The seasons don’t affect the Christmas tree / Perhaps the reason chosen for its role / Unchangeable is living from your soul. / Forever green no matter that the cold / Makes screaming from surrounding colors bold / The grand display of pride before a fall / Which lets us see this one tree standing tall. / The only tree we take into our homes / To celebrate with singing and with poems / A love that like this tree will hold its ground / With constancy like none we’ve ever found. / A beauty that withstands the time of death, / And makes the wind of God a scented breath / Though only green it knows no cause for shame, / For true things are the ones that stay the same. ...John H. Bidwell / / /
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/ “Peace in the New Year” is part of the Flower, Inspirational and Winter Collections...Watercolour on Fabriano Artistico Paper…a pure white Lily glowing from the leaves of fall…the old year and hope for the new… In a complex and oft confusing world. / When life’s details / Get in the way of living, / And mounting worries / Crowd out simple beauty / Of snow and silence, / Fresh water and flowers. / When tragedy strikes without warning / And suffering arrives unannounced, / Then most of all / We must cling to what is truly beautiful— / Children, love laughter, dreams, / Wisdom, wonder, all that friendship means, / Rearranging priorities, and taking time / To discover what is alien, / What is really mine. / “Tis then confusion softens, storms cease, / ‘Tis then descends the gift of private peace. / May such peace surround our lives / And fill our space, / May peace transform our hearts / And thus our race. J.Kavanaugh /
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/ “Papaya at the George St Market” is part of the Tropics and Textures collection...Acrylic on Canvas…Original has been sold… / / Grew you from seed / dug rich red earth / nine months on / you wear fruit / the fresh green / of your stem / the earth colour / of your skin / the pink flesh / within / – ripe. N. Goodman / /
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/ “India 1” is part of the Design Collection...an abstract interpretation of the designs of the Indies…mixed media, dyes, inks, and gold leaf on raw cotton…see others below…click on the image to go to the original page… Lead me from the unreal to the Real. / Lead me from darkness unto Light. / Lead me from death to Immortality. The Upanishads /
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/ “India 2” is part of the Series India.... a series of abstract paintings which reflect the artist’s conception of the decorative arts of the East and West Indies…this piece created on fabric, is painted and dyed to look antique, then hand printed and over printed in some areas with gold, using an ancient hand carved Indian textile decorator’s wooden stamp…others shown below, are etched on plaster, then painted with inks, metallic powders, watercolour on a base of Arches Paper …click on each painting to view the original … One can always sleep / But can one always dream? / When minutes slip away at last / as cloth closes seam / And makes a garment / The design is cast / And no altering of the piece / Can change the fact / The piece has been made / the dream has been cast / The solidifying then / and then / and then / reality sets in. s.k.lindeman / / / / /
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/ “The Symbol” is part of the Collection based on the designs of the Indies, East and West combined...these are more my abstract imaginings than a literal depiction…as the poem says “we live NOT in an epoch of chaotic decay”, but in fact there is a harmony in all that we experience….I created the classic repeat double S design and etched it into plaster, aged and coloured it with inks, powders and metallic dust, on Arches Paper…click on the images below to go to the original pages of other selections from the collection ... Every life / Is a symbol of / Promise, / Streaming forth from a realm / Where / No one is a stranger, unwanted / None, / Where Love blossoms for the One / And Truth for the many. Sri Chinmoy / / / /
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/ “Silk” is part of the India collection...a series of abstract paintings which reflect the artist’s conception of the decorative arts of the East and West Indies…etched on plaster, then painted with inks, metallic powders, watercolour on a base of Arches Paper ..see others below…click on each painting to view the original … The lights of friendship / shapes shift from tears of jade pearl / to hearts of diamond. / This way of being / is a kind of love that seeks / no fear or evil. / Like the soft twinship / of sisters spinning / faith out of silk words. / This way of being / peers deep inside beginnings to / safeguard their endings. / Like Tiger Lily / blooming scented prophecies / of soul’s song burning. Aberjhani / / / / /
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/ “Blue Jodhpur” is part of the India Series.... a series of abstract paintings which reflect the artist’s conception of the decorative arts of the East and West Indies…etched on plaster, then painted with inks, metallic powders, watercolour on a base of Arches Paper ..see others below …click on each painting to view the original … Some see Your form as red like the sun, with rays that are / redder still than the red of minium or red lac; / Others, as beautiful intense blue like a powder of splintered / fragments on the precious stone, sapphire; / Others again as shining like gold, or dazzling white, surpassing / the milk when the Ocean of Milk is churned. / It is a universal form, varied like crystal, since it changes / according to circumstance ....Sarvajnamitra / Overview of the City of Jodhpur Jodhpur…The Blue City…VIDEO / / / / / /
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/ “The Temple Garden” is part of the India Collection...a series of abstract paintings which reflect the artist’s conception of the decorative arts of the East and West Indies…etched on plaster, then painted with inks, metallic powders, watercolour on a base of Arches Paper ..see others below…click on each painting to view the original… Do not go to the garden of flowers! / Do not go to the garden of flowers! / O Friend ! go not there; / In your body is the garden of flowers Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, / and there gaze on the Infinite Beauty. Kabir / / / /
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/ “Time to Start Anew” is part of the series “The Trees”...here we are, still in winter, but as we draw towards the end of the year it is a time to stop and access the old…time to look back to the past, and more importantly, forward to the coming year. As artists, it’s a time to reflect on the changes we want (or need) to make in our work, and resolve to follow through on those changes…. like fresh growth in spring, it’s time to start anew ...Watercolour on Arches Not Paper…click on the image below to see others in the collection… Life has it’s beginnings / Coming at intervals, / Time to start anew. / None is first or last, / Save birth and death, / Nor can we decide / Which is most significant, / Transforming, or long enduring. / It only matters that / Each beginning, like Spring, / Be given it’s due, / To nourish the earth, / for flowers, / To respect sun and rain / for fertility, / Not to trample feeble life, / our own or another’s, / Before it’s strong enough / To bend in the wind ... J. Kavanaugh /
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/ “Couleurs Fantastiques” is part of the Tropics collection...Watercolour on Arches Hot Press 140 lb paper…. in the Tropics, hot vibrant colour surrounds you on all sides…the intensity can sometimes feel almost surreal ...see addtional samples from the collection below…click on each image to view the original page… It is unfolding around me. / Layers and layers are being revealed, / Showing fantastic colors / Brightening up my world; / And when I laugh, / Those layers shake / And rainbows shine throughout my sky. / They burst and shatter, / Creating booming fireworks, / Lighting up my Earth. / When you smile, / Those colors stretch; / They cover my atmosphere / And all I can see is beauty. / Take my hand, and follow me. / Let’s share our colors / And reveal ourselves / In all our different shades. E. Ottens / / / / /
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/ “Bouquet de Vie” is part of the Tropics Collection... a semi-abstract Still Life watercolour on Saunders Waterford Rough 140lb Paper…see more of the collection below..click on each image to view the enlarged version… Known as the “tree of life,” the coconut palm is an important agricultural crops of the Tropics. It yields timber; food; fermented and unfermented drink; alcohol; vinegar; thatching material; splints; strips and fiber for making baskets, mates, rope, hats, brushes, brooms, and other articles; fuel; caulking material; utensils for household use, such as cups, bowls, spoons, and the like; oil for food, cooking, illumination, for making soap, substitutes for butter and lard, ointments; and oil for cake for feeding domestic animals and for fertilizer. / / / / / / /
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“Berry Fresco” is part of the Texture Collection.... Mixed Media and Watercolour on layers of plaster with etched letters, on Waterford Rough Paper… / / 1328 Views / / FEATURED IN IMPRESSIONIST ART AND OTHER GROUPS Maria Medeiros very kindly offered her photos to me and I have chosen her Vintage Berries (see photo) as the source for this painting, done in a heavily textured style…if you look closely, you will be able to recognize words and sayings about art and life etched into the plaster…I wanted the work to look aged and worn, but the Berries I made fresher looking so as to stand out against the antique background ...a few samples of the collection are shown below…click on each image to view the enlarged version…. / / /
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/ “Jonagold 3 is part of the Portfolio Collection, which has three websites devoted to it alone...acrylic on canvas… the following is an excerpt from my Blog “The Journey”, which describes the process of creating this collection…a few samples are shown below…click on each to see the original page… Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind, as a steady purpose….a point on which the soul may fix it’s intellectual eye”.....Mary Shelley. Since the first of this series “Still Life with Mandarins”, emerged, I have been deliberately making the symbolic backgrounds of seasons, land, sea, sky, man, his work, etc. etc. more and more stylized….the subject matter however, I want to keep very real. I like the fruit to look ripe and juicy, as if you could pull it right off the canvas ...... In this way I can escape falling into the trap of the painter as moralist. I still want the work to be decorative….the kind of thing I would want to, and indeed have, hanging in my own home. ....what’s more I would like to involve the viewer in a dialogue with the work ..... No two paintings are alike and I will make sure that they never will be. One thing they do have in common, is the very dark ebb and flow, that swirls around the subject area of the painting…..and again this will be different with each painting .... Laurie Lee’s lyrical words, speak to all of my work during these last few months. Behold the apples’ rounded worlds: juice-green of July rain, the black polestar of flowers, the rind mapped with its crimson stain. / The russet, crab and cottage, red burn to the sun’s hot brass, then drop like sweat from every branch and bubble in the grass. / They lie as wanton as they fall, and where they fall and break, the waltzing wasp consumes his share, the bent worm enters in. / / / / /
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/ “Marbre et Les Citrons” are part of the Faux and Citrus Collections...mixed media including liquid gold, on gessoed Arches hot pressed paper…influenced by the work of William De Morgan…see other examples from the collection below…click on each image to view the enlarged version… De fleurs / libéré / par la lumière de la lune, / d’un / arôme de exaspéré / aimer, / baigne dans le parfum, / jaune / dérivé de l’arbre de citron, / et de ses Plantarium / citrons, est descendu à la terre. Neruda… / / / / / / / / /
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/ “Fragments” is part of the India collection... hand painted with watercolours, inks, dyes and gold leaf on a fragment of fabric, to symbolize not only the decorative patterns of India, but as the poem reads, the “fragments of reality” that weave through the “fabrics of the mind” ..see others from the collection below…click on each image to view the enlarged version… There was a time when I loved / The fantastic fabrics of the mind. / There was a time / When I lived my life / Based on culled fictions. / There was a time / When I was satisfied / With a fragment of reality, / Splintered, broken and smashed. / But now a lucid illumination / Steals into my heart. / The eternal Presence / Of Infinity’s Light / Feeds my Vision’s Dawn..Sri Chinmoy / / / /
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/ “Nowhere” is part of the Abstract, Landscape and Seascape collection called “The Journey”... Watercolour on MDF….illusory and impermanent…nowhere....see the newest addition to the collection below…click on the image to view the enlarged version.. 812 Views Thou greatest Keeper of Secrets, / Most elusive, consummate Illusionist, / Riddlester non-pareil, Mazemaster, / Supreme Criptician - / From whom do You hide, / everywhere and nowhere? / For whom do You wait? / Who else? / Only the ocean can know the ocean .... Prachar /
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/ “The Way Home” is part of the Landscape, Abstract and Winter Collections... Watercolour on MDF….see another in the series below..click on the image to see the enlarged version… 541 Views Winter whispered softly as we turned our way homewards… / Why is it so dark you asked, scarcely daring to breathe… / I didn’t answer, but clasped you closer to my heart, / As snowflakes hung suspended in the deep blue night ... J. Zroback /
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/ “On the Way to Somewhere is part of a new collection of semi abstract watercolours on a single cut of MDF... it’s a journey that may be illusory, only in the mind of the artist, it may be real, or just a journey through life…as one painting appears, the previous one becomes submerged…in life we can never really go back to yesterday ...see the others in the collection below…click on each to view the enlarged image.. We were not certain, but we were on the way to somewhere.. / The mountains in the distance seem to hold everything in shadow.. / Where we were, was a field of poppies, but there was snow in the hedgerows.. / Beyond were fields and yet more fields, then what appeared to be a ridge of smaller hills hidden by a block of dense trees… / Behind us the lands fell away to nothingness ..J. Zroback / / Winter whispered softly as we turned our way homewards… / Why is it so dark you asked, scarcely daring to breathe… / I didn’t answer, but clasped you closer to my heart, / As snowflakes hung suspended in the deep blue night ... J. Zroback / / Thou greatest Keeper of Secrets, / Most elusive, consummate Illusionist, / Riddlester non-pareil, Mazemaster, / Supreme Criptician - / From whom do You hide, / everywhere and nowhere? / For whom do You wait? / Who else? / Only the ocean can know the ocean.
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/ “Who Is Here” is part of the semi-abstract Collection now named The Journey...Watercolour on MDF…see the beginning of The Journey below…click on each image to see the enlarged version.. Wind and weather brought us to this place.. / The distant sound of voices whisper across the water.. / Night and Silence…who is here? / Solitude and Silence are our only companions… / How curious the light that shines on the water!! / Night and Silence..who is here? / Echo answers nothing. ..J.Zroback / / We were not certain, but we were on the way to somewhere.. / The mountains in the distance seem to hold everything in shadow.. / Where we were, was a field of poppies, but there was snow in the hedgerows.. / Beyond were fields and yet more fields, then what appeared to be a ridge of smaller hills hidden by a block of dense trees… / Behind us the lands fell away to nothingness ..J. Zroback / Winter whispered softly as we turned our way homewards… / Why is it so dark you asked, scarcely daring to breathe… / I didn’t answer, but clasped you closer to my heart, / As snowflakes hung suspended in the deep blue night ... J. Zroback / / Thou greatest Keeper of Secrets, / Most elusive, consummate Illusionist, / Riddlester non-pareil, Mazemaster, / Supreme Criptician - / From whom do You hide, / everywhere and nowhere? / For whom do You wait? / Who else? / Only the ocean can know the ocean.
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/ “Is This Elysium”, the fifth stage, is part of the semi-abstract Landscape Collection now named The Journey...Watercolour on MDF…see the beginning of The Journey below…click on each image to see the enlarged version.. Is This Elysium? / The place the gods have set aside for man to rest? / All day long the sun and moon shone together in the sky… / Here are fields as high as the house, songs play from the windows… / Gold and green and princely red mix with the daises and the corn.. / Is This Elysium? J.Zroback / / Wind and weather brought us to this place.. / The distant sound of voices whisper across the water.. / Night and Silence…who is here? / Solitude and Silence are our only companions… / How curious the light that shines on the water!! / Night and Silence..who is here? / Echo answers nothing. ..J.Zroback / / We were not certain, but we were on the way to somewhere.. / The mountains in the distance seem to hold everything in shadow.. / Where we were, was a field of poppies, but there was snow in the hedgerows.. / Beyond were fields and yet more fields, then what appeared to be a ridge of smaller hills hidden by a block of dense trees… / Behind us the lands fell away to nothingness ..J. Zroback / / Winter whispered softly as we turned our way homewards… / Why is it so dark you asked, scarcely daring to breathe… / I didn’t answer, but clasped you closer to my heart, / As snowflakes hung suspended in the deep blue night ... J. Zroback / / Thou greatest Keeper of Secrets, / Most elusive, consummate Illusionist, / Riddlester non-pareil, Mazemaster, / Supreme Criptician - / From whom do You hide, / everywhere and nowhere? / For whom do You wait? / Who else? / Only the ocean can know the ocean.
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/ “I am the Memory of a Moment of Happiness” is the start of a new series....this one is for Valentine’s Day….Watercolour and Mixed Media on Canvas…Based on another photo by Maria Medeiros called Aroma Musica ...Maria very generously offered her photos to me… / I did not not want to do a literal translation of Maria’s lovely photo, so I took this to a different level by freezing the music and the rosebud, in ice (painted to look so), and in time…the memory of a moment held fast in our hearts, a memory of joy or of sorrow, the lover’s gift, the wedding wreath Mixed Media on Arches Paper..featured in Out of the Blue, Impressionist Art, The Fringe and Image Writing… 1204 Views FEATURED MANY TIMES INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING GROUPS… / IMAGE WRITING. / FEATURED FEATURES. / CHALLENGE WINNER IN IMAGE WRITING AND INSPIRED ART Kahlil Gibran said of the flower… I am the daughter of the elements / With whom Winter conceived; / To whom Spring gave birth; I was / Reared in the lap of Summer and I / Slept in the bed of Autumn. But I look up high to see only the light, / And never look down to see my shadow. / This is wisdom which man must learn. K.G. /
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/ The Eye of My Eye is based on another photo by Maria Medeiros called Solemn Thoughts / I decided to reduce the image to a combination of the very essence of her Solemn Thoughts and my The Eye of My Eye, merely touching on the idea of the lilies rather than doing a strict representation of the flower…I also emphasized and enlarged the background, to make the lily float and be more atmospheric…..it’s more about the feelings engendered by the story and the image together .... perfect for Valentine’s Day .... Watercolour on Waterford paper…. By whose touch does the lily smile / And open its beauty – bud? / Whose moonlit beauty / Do I see in the lily? / Who is the Eye of my eye; / Who is the Heart of my heart? / Alas, then why do I not see Him, / His face of transcendental Beauty, / Even in my dreams? Sri Chinmoy
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