To mark my birthday month, I will be posting painting~poem artworks from the collection in my book here on the blog. I hope you enjoy them! If you would like to buy the book, there is a discount available throughout September. Just go over here and at the checkout enter SCARLET to save 25%.
I love the title of this first one - it came to me early in my exploration of intuitive painting. And I used it to title and frame my Berlin residency that is now nearly over. It was nearly the book title too, but I found that the poem on the front looked so striking that I went with that.
Our flying shapes the sky
I painted a woman -
not an angel
- green and pink
and she flew through the sky
blue-black
yellow stars
over a church and a cottage
a red hill
and an inky black path.
She moved the sky by her flight.
And underneath
in dissolving darkness,
watching from the cottage,
someone sees
the sky shifted.
I filled the sky around the stars with blue.
I carved the cradling moon.
Pink trails behind the flying.
I enhanced the stars with yellow and white
until they become
flowers
dropping
petals
earthwards.
She flies,
shaping the sky.