Mourning Cloak
Two-Dimensional Wall Art > Paintings (Oil)
24 x 24 x 2.5
$2,800.00
Artwork #
309
Artist's Statement
"Mourning Cloak” was inspired by the flight and presence of the impressive Mourning Cloak butterfly, an annual solitary visitor to the native ceanothus and manzanita bushes growing in my Novato backyard. It's wings are a rich brownish black with yellow ruffled edge outlined in small blue dots. My painting began by mixing a number of warm and cool iron oxide pigments. Using this paint mixture, I allowed the gesture of the butterfly’s flight to influence the strokes I applied to the canvas. At this point, the form, the composition, the outcome of the painting was no longer under my control and I accepted what my subconscious and the butterfly had created. To don a mourning cloak seems appropriate right now. The image of this "Mourning Cloak" implies wholeness and healing to me, and gives me hope.
Artist
Linda Larsen
Contact Information
(415)516-4812
