Bridging Realism and Emotion, this is my challenge.
If it is painted too realistically, it often results in a piece that does not express the magic that I see.
Yet, if a piece is painted with too much emotion, the realism is not sufficient to communicate to the viewer what there is to cherish in so common an object as a simple shell.
The same holds true for all of my work. There is so much natural beauty in so many places, even still. If only people would slow down enough to really see.
“Each Shell”
Each shell I found I cherished,
Each shell delights the eye,
The eye that will concern itself with God’s own gifts that lie…
In every darkened corner,
Behind every embittered heart,
Choose only to look past the pain and in God’s great gifts, take part.
copyright 2011 Margaret Biggs