Victorian Series
Leaf 369 Appreciate Your Heart
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Leaf 369 from Chris Westbury’s
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Screw a glassy fire brick heart to a black navy haze. The haze and the color navy are both symbols of darkness. Symbolically, the heart is a descendent of your cerebral cortex, while the haze is a present reminder of the early Dadaists. Together they are complex and destabilizing. Having them both together reminds us of why we need to be kind and not render our loved ones insane. This piece will remind you to appreciate your heart.
My painting was created for a collaborative installation with Chris Westbury in the Insight 2:Engaging the Health Humanities exhibit at the Fine Arts Building Gallery, University of Alberta, in 2013.
http://insight2.healthhumanities.ca/exhibition/exhibitors.html#takeleaf
| DIMENSIONS | 24“X12” |
| MEDIA | Encaustic and mixed media |
| DATE | 2013 |
The Victorians Collect Insects
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My interest and work in the field of history has had an influence on my artwork. I have a continuing fascination with collecting, keep-sakes, Victorian cabinets of curiosity, shadow-boxes and memory vessels, which have traditionally held symbolic images of nature, love, remembrance and mourning. This has also translated into encaustic paintings – layering and embedding images and objects into the wax.
Photograph of the Potter children, [Edmonton, AB], 1898. Provincial Archives of Alberta #B8444
| DIMENSIONS | 12“X14” |
| MEDIA | Encaustic and mixed media |
| DATE | 2010 |
Victorian Hothouse Flowers at Salt Prairie Settlement
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My interest and work in the field of history has had an influence on my artwork. I have a continuing fascination with collecting, keep-sakes, Victorian cabinets of curiosity, shadow-boxes and memory vessels, which have traditionally held symbolic images of nature, love, remembrance and mourning. This has also translated into encaustic paintings – layering and embedding images and objects into the wax.
| DIMENSIONS | 11“X15” |
| MEDIA | Encaustic & mixed media |
| DATE | 2008 |
Unpatronized Merit and Useful Knowledge
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This painting was created for the Association of Canadian Archivists Online Silent Auction, April 2008
I have long been fascinated with the Victorian era and its predilection toward collecting and natural science. In this painting, I incorporated plants for which their Victorian meanings are particularly appropriate to the archival experience:
Red Primrose = Unpatronized Merit; Parsley = Useful Knowledge
| DIMENSIONS | 10“X7” |
| MEDIA | Encaustic & mixed media |
| DATE | 2008 |
Something Old Something New Something Oncidium Something Blue
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My interest and work in the field of history has had an influence on my artwork. I have a continuing fascination with collecting, keep-sakes, Victorian cabinets of curiosity, shadow-boxes and memory vessels, which have traditionally held symbolic images of nature, love, remembrance and mourning. This has also translated into encaustic paintings – layering and embedding images and objects into the wax.
This is one of a series of paintings that I created for weddings.
| DIMENSIONS | 20”X14” |
| MEDIA | Encaustic & mixed media |
| DATE | 2008 |
The Victorian Mind
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My interest and work in the field of history has had an influence on my artwork. I have a continuing fascination with collecting, keep-sakes, Victorian cabinets of curiosity, shadow-boxes and memory vessels, which have traditionally held symbolic images of nature, love, remembrance and mourning. This has also translated into encaustic paintings – layering and embedding images and objects into the wax.
| DIMENSIONS | 20“X16” |
| MEDIA | Encaustic & mixed media |
| DATE | 2007 |
Contemplating Mortality and Rose Petals
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My interest and work in the field of history has had an influence on my artwork. I have a continuing fascination with collecting, keep-sakes, Victorian cabinets of curiosity, shadow-boxes and memory vessels, which have traditionally held symbolic images of nature, love, remembrance and mourning. This has also translated into encaustic paintings – layering and embedding images and objects into the wax.
| DIMENSIONS | 16”X14″ |
| MEDIA | Encaustic & mixed media |
| DATE | 2006 |
Botanical Heart Specimen Cabinet I
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My interest and work in the field of history has had an influence on my artwork. I have a continuing fascination with collecting, keep-sakes, Victorian cabinets of curiosity, shadow-boxes and memory vessels, which have traditionally held symbolic images of nature, love, remembrance and mourning. This has also translated into encaustic paintings – layering and embedding images and objects into the wax.
| DIMENSIONS | 18”X18” |
| MEDIA | Collagraph & mixed media |
| DATE | 2002 |