painting - layers of reality

Layers Of Reality (Creation)

This is a large painting (1m x 1m) in oil paint, Posca pen and pencil on canvas. It is part of a series of 4 paintings the same size, which I worked on from 2011 through to 2017. All the canvases in this series went through many changes, and thus have many layers underneath the surface that you see.

This image talks about the ways in which we create our reality through our thinking and habits, through what we allow to repeat and radiate from us. The woman is becoming aware of how her words-thoughts-deeds are interrelated, and how she can be more engaged in her own unfolding reality.

As with many of my paintings, this one has multiple sentences, hand-written, across it.

I love writing on the paintings, as they bring another dimension into play. Often the words come as a kind of affirmation; a stating of intention and hope, prayer for good things, belief in expansion and betterment.

This painting, as mentioned above, went through significant changes in its development. It had many characters, who came in and out of the painting. (Originally, all four canvases were joined together, for a theatre performance in which I painted live.) Sometimes a painting will go through these stages of busy-ness, and then simplification, before becoming a completed piece.

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