Artist's Statement

"Naturally Inspired"

Portfolio

"Beauty loves freedom; then it is no surprise that we engage beauty through the imagination. The imagination always goes beyond the frames and cages of the expected and predictable. The imagination loves possibility and freedom is the ether where possibility lives. Uncharted territories are always beckoning. Beauty is at home in this realm of the invisible, the unexpected and the unknown. It emerges from its own depths, sure in poise and generous in possibility. Yet there is a certain disturbance in the call of beauty, a displacement." John O'Donohue

As an artist I find I love working with circular shapes that become whimisical when I imagine and draw tendrils hanging from them, curling out of them. For me these circular shapes become joyous, magical, merry dancers, singers of song and players of games in the playgrounds of nature that I paint. These beautiful eternal circular shapes are at home in the realm of my paintings where there is the unexpected, the unknown and the invisible or imagined. I want these paintings to sing praises to the natural landscapes and gardens where I find, beauty, love, freedom and inspiration. And I wanted these paintings to sing praises to the unexpected, the unknown and the invisible in nature, to sing praises to the things we sometimes too quickly travel past and don't just stop and notice, beauties we forget about or are only for a moment. I want to stop and dream, stop and taste and smell all those wonderful things I remember in nature every time I open this book. I want these paintings to sing praises, wonderful memories and imaginaries of mine and anyone else who is looking for that which is beautiful, loved and free.


Christine Alfery