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Chair #3, Original mixed media painting, 15.5" x 19.75"

Name: Chair #3, Original mixed media painting, 15.5" x 19.75"
Brand: FragmentsOfLight
SKU: 269263779
Price: 248.71 EUR
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5.0 (22 reviews)

By Colleen

Owner of FragmentsOfLight

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Materials

watercolor, acrylic, ink, 140 lb watercolor paper

Dimensions

Width: 15.5 Inches; Height: 19.75 Inches

PAINTING DETAILS: This original painting, third in a series of four, was created on heavy weight watercolor paper with watercolor, acrylic, and oil-based ink. It measures 15.5" x 19.75".

I joyfully donate 20% of my art profits to Sanctuary of Hope homes for orphans in Nairobi, Kenya (www.hopespromise.com).

I'd love for you to visit my blog at: www.colleenbriggs.com.

ARTIST STATEMENT: I believe what we can see is only a dim reflection of true reality.

I think of the work of an artist as one who reaches into the invisible; tugs out little threads of color, pattern, texture; and weaves them into a language visible to others.

Artist Paul Klee put it this way, “Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.”

John O’Donohue writes about a similar idea on page 126 of his book Eternal Echoes, “The visible is only one little edge of things. The visible is only the shoreline of the magnificent ocean of the invisible.”

A chair is visible. We see and walk by chairs all day, hardly noticing them unless they are specially designed or decorated somehow. But what if an ordinary chair is only the edge of the invisible? What if the slim border of paint or polyurethane slipped just a little, and we could peek beyond?

What if we could suddenly and instantaneously see, for example, the lives of all the people who touch it: past, present, and future?

In his nonpublished poem, “Thin Places,” Sharlande Sledge writes:

“Thin places,” the Celts call this space,
Both seen and unseen,
Where the door between the world
And the next is cracked open for a moment
And the light is not all on the other side.
God shaped space. Holy.

What if these “thin places” are really all around us, just waiting for us to slow down long enough to notice them? What if they are as near as the chair you sit upon?

When I face the swirling nothingness of a piece of white paper, paintbrush poised to begin creating, my prayerful hope is to lure you into noticing, to whisper to your soul in a language you can see – there is so much more beyond what you can see.

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