Eden's Dawn

 

Eden's Dawn, Abstract  18.25 x 24" oil on constructed canvas
©Helen Read 

unframed, painted around sides
(see images below)

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As this painting progressed, the abstraction began to look more and more like a garden to me; a beautifully vibrant and rather untamed garden.  I felt a sense of motion and a bubbling energetic life emerging.  Jewel tones insisted on their brilliance, greens required variegated variety, and an unexpected roiling of color began to unfold from above.  

 

No one knows, of course, what the imagination or hand of God brought into existence at the formation of the first garden. We can imagine, though.  Was it a tidy, orderly formal garden? Or was it something more wild and free, tumbling with abundance, extravagant in color, bursting with energetic life…. beautiful and good, yet untamed and filled with possibilities? 

 

This painting explores that question using color and brush stroke, with an unconventionally constructed canvas.  Experience an idea of Eden’s Dawn.

 

This painting is painted around the sides. No framing needed. The canvas is a constructed canvas, with unfinished edges and fraying becoming part of the composition. The canvas was primed and gessoed prior to painting. 

 

(Detail of the right side of the painting. Highly textured.)

(painted around all 4 sides. Painting is 1" deep)