The Singing Tree

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I am happy to announce the onset of the Art&Ghosts seasonal sale! All open-edition, 10x8 prints will be available at a reduced price over the next few weeks, so be sure to take a peek at what's in store. I shall also be adding a selection of brand new works to the shop within the next few days - including the remade Ruby child above and other, more recent creations.

Please check out my News section for more details.

Continuing work on the Wild Imaginings series this weekend. These are such a joy to create: beginning with watercolour and acrylics, coloured pens and paper cutouts, then taking them into the digital arena to recompose. I absolutely adore this method! Primarily influenced by music - folk songs, dreamy, almost barely there songs, lost to forever sea shanties, both old and new, and playful, meandering, darkly soothing melodies. So perhaps these are my visual lullabyes.....they are playful, colourful, yet contain so many hidden references to what moves me, makes me wonder, shakes me up inside. For all of these reasons, working on this series feels so very refreshing indeed.

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The Singing Tree

I had initially planned to populate the 'tree' with a multitude of creatures, but the detail became a tad crowded, so this is what remains. Mostly composed of watercolour and pen sections, re-cut into new shapes. The colours take me back to primary school, the location of one of my earliest memories: standing in awe before an easel and a terrifyingly large sheet of stretched paper almost larger than myself (I was possibly about six years old). When the process was everything and the end result so unimportant! 

The above image represents the joy of being, for me. New beginnings, optimism and the wonder of dreams. The importance of remaining true to yourself.

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New Souls

Inspired by the concept of past and future lives. Letting my thoughts run away with me in visual form. I like how the colourful, beatific atmosphere is just ever so slightly offset by the menacing presence of the gnarled trees. Nature and love and violence are inseparable, in dreams. And nothing is ever truly what it seems.

I will most definitely be taking this series further:)

More soon!

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Comments

[Anna Lloyd]

Beautiful work, I love the colours!
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[withoutwords]

these new works are beyond beautiful. everything from the edible looking colours to the dreamy scenes themselves.

the singing tree especially.

also
you should write!
more!
the way you string your thoughts into the most pearlescent drops of beauty and wonder makes me hungry for more.

[Maria-Thérèse]

Beauuutiful work!
Did you watch that film yet, "Knowing"? Something in these images is the exact thing I don't want to mention that I saw in the film and it made me think of you!

[andrea gutierrez]

the singing tree is so lovely and bright...adore your work as always...

[Caroline]

I adore "The Singing Tree"

It would look perfect in my daughter's room!

[A Fanciful Twist]

YUMMMYYYYYY!!!! xoxo

[louise (art and ghosts)]

Thanks so much:)

For those who may have left a comment and cannot see it, there appears to be an issue with typepad today - some of the comments are not appearing in my publish list, although i am receiving the emails, so im hoping it will be fixed sometime soon!

[theaxx]

TOTALLY LOVE the singing tree... it's completely gorgeous... and what a lovely thought... singing trees...

Glad I stumbled upon your site. Your work is amazing!!

thea.
xx

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[CreativeButterflyXOX]

Such lovely work, it's just so colorful.

[louise (art and ghosts)]

thanks very much, folks!

these are quite special to me.

xxx