Blue Heron Requiem - Mother Earth Water Series 7 by Marilyn Wells

36" x 24"

Oil and Cold Wax Painting on wood panel

This painting was inspired by:

"...it floats down

like an armful of blue flowers, a bundle of light

  coming to refresh itself in the black water...

-M.Oliver - Circles (Blue Heron) 2207OC

and also the "Requiem for the Living", which our choir was singing and performing at that time.

I've been exploring a technique new to me but that's been around for hundreds of years - cold wax. I have always loved the icons of the Middle East and the Orthodox churches in particular, and wanted to introduce more of the rich and broken textures that appear in those icons after a few hundred years of wear and weathering. I am delighted to say I am achieving the results I want, as in this painting, larger than my earlier ones.

This painting, mystical and romantic, is about luxuriating in the beauty of nature and art as they come together in a richly textured surface.

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