beyond time

“No one else but you can make your marks. Listen to your bones. Speak with your spirit. Edit with your head. Live with your heart.” ~S.Holland


beyond_time
beyond time
encaustic and mixed media
9×12 inches

I came across the above quote from a tweet by Deborah Colter and just loved it. Part of it is that it speaks to what I have been trying to follow this past year and what I will continue to follow in 2010.

This painting has been through many transformations. I actually painted an oil and mixed media painting on the wood back in 2007. I think in 2008 I covered the painting in clear encaustic medium. And then I kind of left it alone. I came back to it in late 2009 when I was going through old paintings and canvases that I wanted to either repaint or finally use. And I began painting it, little by little with encaustics. Letting it develop organically, not rushing it, not really sure where I wanted it to go. Wanting to maintain some of the old bones of the oil painting beneath the wax. (It actually used to be a horizontal landscape painting!)

I finished it last week, my actual first painting created in 2010.

17 Comments

  1. Oh, this is beautiful… from the opening quote to the painting… and reading of your process. Beautiful from start to finish.

    My redundancy is annoying me….

    I wonder what “S. Holland”‘s first name is, do you know?

  2. Isn’t that a great quote? I am glad it was an inspiration to you! The piece looks great! The author of the quote is Susan Holland and I found her quotes on Robert Genn’s website: The Painter’s Keys Resource of Art Quotations: http://bit.ly/7wEUkD which, by the way, is filled with many wonderful quotes. I do not have any more information on who Susan is, maybe Robert Genn’s site would have that answer?

  3. No one else but you can make your marks – I love that! I find all your mark making in Beyond Time to be oh so very intriguing. I love looking closer and still finding new things in a painting.

  4. This is a truly beautiful piece. It does speak to me of time, and seems to have a very personal quality… a window into the person who created it, is the best way I could put it. I love the quote, too!

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