In this genre I want to express the deep well of magic, beauty and dynamic mystery which resides in the human heart.
The heart can metaphorically be described as a sun. Like the sun the heart brings energy and light and the flow of a living force.
Similarly when expressing my heart in painting I want to create a feeling of this energy which is an expression of love. When we love we feel the heart is the instrument of love. We do not love with our thinking or our will.
The colours of the heart
The medium of oil has a force which is like the blood. It flows and moves and carries the energy of colour in its expression.
The darker colours bring the beauty of depth and gravity. Purple is a colour of sacredness and expresses the song of the night.
Blue is an overarching colour like the sky. It creates a feeling of stillness and a sense of calmness.
Green is the colour of life and it absorbs dark and expresses light in a multitude of variations of green.
Orange is the colour of fire and scintillating movement.
Yellow streams out and warms everything in its path.
And red speaks of passionate vitality.
When the colours are given their due value by darkening or lightening on the canvas they begin to sing the song of the heart.
