anemoi (the wind series___)
paintings that explore the dynamics and sensations of the wind, the wind as a representation of time, time as a representation of loss and of change
based on the Greek gods of wind, the anemoi, and the characteristics they imbue the wind with.
based on the Greek gods of wind, the anemoi, and the characteristics they imbue the wind with.
2025-2026
The wind that leaps, the wind that shakes, the wind, my heart, a howling;
acrylic on canvas; 100 x 120 cm; 2025-2026
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Second in a four-painting study on the sensations of wind — this one is the vortex: the joyous rupture lapping at your skin, scattering everything. Leaves in motion, the witchy woods, gnarled bark in filtered damp light. A swirl of autumnal ephemerality, hidden inner landscapes.
As I worked on this piece I kept coming back to a particular scene in Hamnet, of a zoomed out view of wind rushing and singing through tangled leaves, an insistent swirl hovering and quavering above the black void.
Here the wind emerged as a hidden face, as a sucked in breath, as a wild howl, as secret dancing figures (Bulgakov & Goethe's witch's dance, medieval marginalia, lepidoptera, a fire creature, my cat). Tunnels of summer light receding as time barrels onwards towards winter.
As I worked on this piece I kept coming back to a particular scene in Hamnet, of a zoomed out view of wind rushing and singing through tangled leaves, an insistent swirl hovering and quavering above the black void.
Here the wind emerged as a hidden face, as a sucked in breath, as a wild howl, as secret dancing figures (Bulgakov & Goethe's witch's dance, medieval marginalia, lepidoptera, a fire creature, my cat). Tunnels of summer light receding as time barrels onwards towards winter.
