Girl With Plaid Jumper
Rick Beerhorst About this artist
ARTIST'S STATEMENT: “
This is a painting of one of my daughters holding a rose cut from the garden. The rose is traditionally a symbol of love. The background is from a local park.
”This is a painting of one of my daughters holding a rose cut from the garden. The rose is traditionally a symbol of love. The background is from a local park.
”This painting began with a very cool vintage dress that came into our household. I used an old cosmetology book for the hair style. The knife on the table dates back to the civil war and I picked it up in a local junk store.
” “Our girls were playing with Brat dolls at the time I painted this. I feel like the inclusion of the doll helps anchor the painting into the present. The mirror and the addition of a self portrait add another layer of meaning to this painting.
” “This is a painting that my daughter posed for in an old jacket that was coming apart at the seams. The frayed edges felt like a good metaphor of our life as artists that often feel thread bare in more ways than finances.
” “I painted this when our family was living for a year in Brooklyn NY. Our family of 8 all in a 2 bedroom apt with one bath. It was a great adventure.
” “I have been painting images of my children for their whole lives. For them to pose is the most natural thing.
” “Cats and books figure a lot in my imagery. The cat is a household connection to the natural world and our own wild genetic past. The book is a path way to new ways of seeing, new ways of thinking and ultimately personal and spiritual transformation.
” “This is another painting of one of my daughters wearing a cool vintage blue sweater we found some where I don't remember.
” “This is a painting of one of my daughters holding a rose cut from the garden. The rose is traditionally a symbol of love. The background is from a local park.
” “This is a neighbor girl who came over to play with my girls over the years. One day she showed up wearing this wonderful red collar and I knew I needed to paint her portrait.
” “This painting is from a series about looking to the things that can't be seen with only a material world view.
” “This painting is like an icon in that it encourages a state of meditation.
” “This is painting reaches back into a rich pictorial history of representing Mary Magdalene with her urn. The urn which in the story holds the perfume worth about $50,000 in today's money was poured out on the feat of Christ in a spontaneous act of worship.
” “This is the detail from a larger picture that tries to re-frame the female breast beyond the level of erotic and simple function to the sphere of metaphysical.
” “The theme of drifting off to sleep is one I continue to return to in my work. The in between place between waking and sleeping is like twilight. It is a place of mystery, a place where the physical reality and the mystical reality become bedfellows.
” “These are my three daughters. This painting has to do with how we learn in different ways, how we tune into the world around us.
” “This is a painting in a series dealing with the idea of poetic insight. What do we see when we go beyond the obvious, what does the blind poet see?
” “This is a new painting in a series I have begun with the subject sticking out their tongue.
” “I was inspired to paint this image because of an illuminated manuscript painting I stumbled upon from the 14th Century.
” “I have painted this view many times and over the years developed a meaningful relationship with the city where I live.
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