"From The Heart"
Inspired by a haiku by Japaanese poet, Matsuo Basho (1644-94), in On Love And Barley: Haiku Of Basho (translated by Lucien Stryk), published by Penguin Classics:
From the heart
of the sweet peony
A drunken bee
This painting has been made using only watercolour, with gum arabic, as the subject matter seemed to require a response that was at once immediate and 'pure'. The peony is observed from life, whilst the bee is from my memory/imagination. The endangered status of bees was to the forefront of my mind whilst painting.
From the heart
of the sweet peony
A drunken bee
This painting has been made using only watercolour, with gum arabic, as the subject matter seemed to require a response that was at once immediate and 'pure'. The peony is observed from life, whilst the bee is from my memory/imagination. The endangered status of bees was to the forefront of my mind whilst painting.
Ref:
paintings_4
Date:
01/07/08
Location:
Photographer:
Brigid Collins
"From The Heart"
Inspired by a haiku by Japaanese poet, Matsuo Basho (1644-94), in On Love And Barley: Haiku Of Basho (translated by Lucien Stryk), published by Penguin Classics:
From the heart
of the sweet peony
A drunken bee
This painting has been made using only watercolour, with gum arabic, as the subject matter seemed to require a response that was at once immediate and 'pure'. The peony is observed from life, whilst the bee is from my memory/imagination. The endangered status of bees was to the forefront of my mind whilst painting.
From the heart
of the sweet peony
A drunken bee
This painting has been made using only watercolour, with gum arabic, as the subject matter seemed to require a response that was at once immediate and 'pure'. The peony is observed from life, whilst the bee is from my memory/imagination. The endangered status of bees was to the forefront of my mind whilst painting.
Ref:
paintings_4
Date:
01/07/08
Location:
Photographer:
Brigid Collins
Paintings
"Enduring, Common I" is the first of a series of four paintings, each incorporating a fragment of a poem, Nasturtiums, by Diana Hendry. This poem was their 'Poem of the Year' at Dr. Neil's Garden in Duddingston, Edinburgh and I responded to it in the form of this series of watercolours for my exhibition, "Such frail enclaves: things remembered, made things, things unmade...", held Thompson's Tower in the garden, in September 2017. Size: 297 x 420 mm. Price on application.
"From The Heart"
Inspired by a haiku by Japaanese poet, Matsuo Basho (1644-94), in On Love And Barley: Haiku Of Basho (translated by Lucien Stryk), published by Penguin Classics:
From the heart
of the sweet peony
A drunken bee
This painting has been made using only watercolour, with gum arabic, as the subject matter seemed to require a response that was at once immediate and 'pure'. The peony is observed from life, whilst the bee is from my memory/imagination. The endangered status of bees was to the forefront of my mind whilst painting.
From the heart
of the sweet peony
A drunken bee
This painting has been made using only watercolour, with gum arabic, as the subject matter seemed to require a response that was at once immediate and 'pure'. The peony is observed from life, whilst the bee is from my memory/imagination. The endangered status of bees was to the forefront of my mind whilst painting.
Ref:
paintings_4
Date:
01/07/08
Location:
Photographer:
Brigid Collins
