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Love
Series |
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Pick a
card from the playing deck and let your
imagination run wild and allow it to lead
you on a journey deep into the human
psyche! |
"Love
Born"
oil on
canvas
2.0m
.x 0.800m
"Love Blinded"
acrylic,collage
on canvas
103cm.x153cm.x 4cm.
The soul
is blinded by the beloved and sees the
ideal it wants to see.
"Love Barred"
The Soul is heavily manacled in a dark prison of Depression. All overtures of Love cannot penetrate through the bars.
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"Love Unravelling"
acrylic
on canvas
103cm.x122cm.x4cm.
The Queen
of Hearts hangs suspended on a rope.Her
fate is sealed.
Each lie,unkind cut,each act of
rejection,each disrespectful word fuels
the turning of the rope,the winding down
and ultimate disintegration of love.
The soul,helpless and adrift,frozen and
passive,is caught up in this inevitable
unravelling,carried away by circumstances
beyond its control.
The dark,mischievous agents preside over
and hasten the process. |
"Love
Torn"
acrylic
on canvas
94cm.x94cm.x4cm.
This work
could almost equally have been entitled
"Psyche's Doubt" from the allegorical
Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche(Love and
the Soul).
Here the soul is submerged in a tumultuous
sea of doubt.Psyche is in two
minds,torn.The Queen of Heart's head is
split asunder.There is constant conflict
raging in the mind;black birds in battle
against white birds,white birds
transforming into black,hearts into
spades.
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"Love Lost"
mixed
media on Arches
87cm.x
116cm x 2.5cm.
Euripides
in his play "Medea" wrote of the bitter
and tragic end of Jason and Medea's
'marriage'.
"And now I see the black end,the end of
great love
And God save me from it:the unburied
horror,
The unbridled hatred,the vultures tearing
a corpse!
God keep me clean of those evil
beaks!"
I had the
privilege of playing the role of "The
Nurse" in Brisbane Arts Theatre's 2000
production of "Medea".Those haunting words
percolated deep down into my
psyche,resurfacing in the imagery of the
scavenging large-beaked black birds seen
in this work and others where love is
under threat. |
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Portraits |
"Portrait of Professor Robert
Endean"
oil on
canvas approx
4ft x 3ft
c.November
1996
Commissioned
by the late Dr.Anne Cameron on the
occasion of his 70th birthday, 27th
december 1996. |
"Zara"
oil on
canvas
102cm.x82cm.
commissioned
by Dr.Ceinwen Grayson
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"Looking Glass Self"
oil on
canvas
118cm.x
84cm x4cm.
Essentially
a self portrait, the title derives from
the psychology theory of the same name 'I
am who you think I think I am" which is in
essence is a state of metaphorical
reflections.
Mother and daughter exist in different
planes. This work is complex interplay
between reality and reflection, between
mother/daughter, looking back/looking
forward and between inside and
outside. |
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Oils |
"The Beachwormers"
oil on
canvas
102cm.x72cm. |
From time
to time I enjoy the technical challenge of
depicting a subject in a purely
traditional and resresentational way.
On a perfect summer's day I came upon two
beachwormers at Dreamtime Beach,
Fingal.
In this work I have endeavoured to depict
the love of the sun, sea and the great
outdoors and to capture the sense of
serenity and freedom I experienced at that
moment. Endless sea, endless sky, endless
beach.
For me the movement of the waters, the
sunlight sparkling on the waves, the
crested terns wheeling and skimming in low
formation over the shallows and the
shimmering images mirrored in the wet sand
came together as a joyous celebration of
life. |
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Acrylics |
"Lady Cats Eyes"
acrylic on canvas
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"Midnight Cat Stalking Rabbit in the
Sky"
acrylic
on canvas
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"Seachange"
acrylic on canvas
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"Wet Night"
acrylic
on canvas
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"Reverie"
acrylic
on canvas
92cm.x92cm. |
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Ceramics |
"Scent of Frangipanis"
ceramic
wall plaque
30cm.x
30cm.
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"New Life
ceramic
wall plaque
30cm.x
30cm.
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Drawings |
"Gathering Storm"
mixed
media on Arches paper
120cm.x94cm.x2cm.
(charcoal,graphite,pastel,ink)
c
May 2004
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"Captive"
mixed
media on paper
107cm.x82cm. |
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Mixed
Media |
"Gopali, Indian Dancer"
mixed
media on vinyl wallpaper
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"Eros to Young
Maidens"
acrylic
on canvas
c. July 2005
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Pastels |
"Summer
Dreams"
pastel on
Ingres paper
97cm.x76cm. |
"Verandah of Crossed Destinies
Revisted"
pastel
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"Rainfingers
over a Solitary"
1m.x0.80m |
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Miscellaneous |
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Book
Dance of Life - Man with Nature
in paintings and poetry
by Louise Blood
Available mail order from the Author
$27.95 + p&h
Click here to download Order Form
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16 mosaic panels,
Private home, Kingscliff NSW |
| Marine Still Life Series |
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"Lost Soles"
Finalist in The Inaugural Eutick Memorial Still Life Award 2007
acrylic on canvas work
147cm.x 97cm.
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Rhapsody in Red
Salon des Refuses,EMSLA 2008,
oil on canvas
147 cm x 97 cm. |
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