heart of gold

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I want to live, I want to give
I've been a miner for a heart of gold
It's these expressions I never give
That keep me searching for a heart of gold and I'm getting old
Keep me searching for a heart of gold and I'm getting old

I've been to Hollywood, I've been to Redwood
I crossed the ocean for a heart of gold
I've been in my mind, it's such a fine line
That keeps me searching for a heart of gold and I'm getting old
Keeps me searching for a heart of gold and I'm getting old

Keep me searching for a heart of gold
You keep me searching and I'm growing old
Keep me searching for a heart of gold
I've been a miner for a heart of gold

Heart of Gold

$100.00

8 X16

mixed media, collage on vintage tray

©wendy gill art

Romper Stomping!!

Remember these??  (If you are to young to remember romper stompers, go to ebay and order yourself a pair--you won't be sorry!!)

As a little girl they made me feel taller.  And powerful.  Like a godzilla in high heels!!  

I would start out like a maniac tripping and falling not paying much attention to form and balance.  Eventually my ankles would demand that I slow down and figure out exactly how to walk on them.  I would carefully place my feet, give some thought to balance, and pretty soon I would be covering some serious ground.   It seems like right about the time I was getting into a  rhythm another kid would come along and I would throw reason to the wind and start crashing along either to keep up or get ahead!!

This was my inspiration for Romper Stomping.  I'm still doing it- crashing forward in chaos trying to live this life, then slowing down to find purpose and make it real.

Only to find myself crashing on again!

Romper Stomping

8 X 16

$100

mixed media, collage on wood tray

©wendy gill art

You can see this piece in person at The Blue Pig Gallery in Palisade, Colorado

The amazing mind altering carrot goddess!!

You know.....that kind of a day.  You're dragging, just touching the very edges of productivity.  Everything seems to be ten times more work than it should.  It leads the mind into laziness--no even worse pessimism!!! (how I despise it!!)

But then

magically

out of the blue

SHE MAKES AN APPEARANCE!!

The amazing mind altering carrot goddess!!

And you can't help smiling!!

 And smiling changes everything!!

Divine Blush

Divine Blush

 “Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.”

― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

Divine Blush

$400

18 X24

Mixed media, collage

© Wendy Gill Art

Prospecting Magic Rush

The concept for this piece is simple.  Just a person.  Looking for that special someone.  Prospecting Magic Rush!

“When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.”

                                                                                   ― Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker

 Prospecting Magic Rush

  $175

 12 X 12  

Mixed media, collage

©Wendy Gill Art

          

Do yourself a big favor and keep striving to make more magic!!!!!

Domineer

I know that like me you wish (and sometimes wholeheartedly try) to be in control when it comes to love. 

domineer     

  oppress; assume authority    be in the saddle, bend, bluster,

 boss around, browbeat, bulldoze, bully*,

 call the shots, dominate, hector, henpeck,

 in the driver's seat, intimidate,

keep under thumb, kick around,

 lead by the nose, menace, overbear,

 predominate, preponderate, prevail,

push the buttons, reign, rule,

 rule the roost, run the show, run things,

 swagger, threaten, throw weight around,

tyrannize

 Domineer

$400

18 X 24

Mixed media, collage

©Wendy Gill Art

Oranges and Osteichthyes

This piece came about as kind of a magical mystery for me!! Including the Pan theme, I put together the images thinking of Pan sort of on the look out for love for you.  I really like the idea of the goats looking out the window watching for that special someone to pass by and imagined them running to report when it happened!  The images of the oranges and fish were present in the original photograph of the window and I collaged the goats in.  I loved this "frame" of flowers and had no idea who Carl Linnaeus was but figured I could change the name or cover it somehow.  I had the feeling for this piece but the images seemed so random!   Because I really liked the way it looked I googled the name and was THRILLED to read that he was "father of modern taxonomy" and that his taxonomic approach became the systematic approach to the study of organisms, including fish.  It fit so well and to me incorporated the idea of the goats classifying and studying the potential companions passing by. The Chinese believe the orange is a prayer or wish for good fortune, and in Pagan traditions the fish is a feminine symbol of fertility and an attribute of the Goddess. Water is a natural emblem of the flow of the Divine Mother principal, and as such, all creatures of the water (including fish) are aspects of the fertility and power of the female deity. The definition of  Osteichthyes is :  also called bony fish, are a taxonomic group of fish that have bony, as opposed to fish with cartilaginous, skeletons.

So, there you have it!!

 Oranges and Osteichthyes!!!

I hope that who ever purchases this piece smiles when they look at it thinking of the potential that love has in making their life complete!!!

 Oranges and Osteichthyes

$150

11 X 14

Mixed media, collage

©Wendy Gill Art

ps I have been practicing saying Osteichthyes so when someone at the show asks me about it I sound super intellegent!!

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La Cascade!!

I thought it would be cool to give you some background info on my new work for the "Seed" show at The Raw Canvas this Friday March 2nd.  All week I will be blogging about each of the pieces. 

 I had originally planned on doing work involving weathered corroding type of material to portray the thought of going to seed.  Tom Robbins changed all of that!! I have really been on a goat kick lately and one of my favorite books of all time is Jitterbug Perfume.

I love the character Pan in this story (if you are unfamiliar with Pan you can read about him here) which goes with the "seed" theme rather nicely!!!  I wanted to show different feelings that love can conjure.

One of the papers I used is old piano sheet music. The song is La Cascade- The Waterfall.  Water is a symbol of emotion and the subconscious.  In this piece the waterfall represents the constant running and flowing movement of emotion.  The thought that the water moves at such a rushing speed that tends to take everything with it in its path - rocks, trees, any debris in the midst of a waterfall is subject to its pull. Sound a little like your brain trying to function amidst the sweet bliss of falling in love??!!  Between the waterfall and Pan, this lovely lass has no chance of escape!!

La Cascade

$950

36 X 48

Mixed media, collage

©Wendy Gill Art

A. D. D. Artists Distraction Disorder

 

I have Artists distraction disorder.  I need treatment.  or medication.

Either that, or I am witnessing the very real phenomenon of  "inanimate objects unite!!!" The scenario goes like this.  My objective was to get organized in preparation for moving.  Cleaning out my makeup was the task at hand.  As I went through my unnecessarily vast amount of beauty products I ran across a very thick stack of magazine pages that I had been hoarding.  I flipped through them relishing the images of cool trendy clothes and expertly applied rocking makeup looks.  In a matter of seconds I completely forgot about that task at hand. Enter the "inanimate objects unite!".  A glue stick.  And an old address book. 

 I re-entered reality (I have no idea how much time had passed) with a sense of great accomplishment.

Oh.  Oh my.  Yes- the task at hand.  Right.  Getting organized in preparation for moving.  I'm on it!!

The end is just the beginning!!!

Took a break from blogging and wanted to post the end of the mixed media class at the art center.  This class was so fun!  I cannot stress enough the importance of spending time with fellow artists.  It is a great way to break out of the confines of your own brain and super-charge your creative process.   I loved watching other artists as they poured out their ideas and brought amazing art into being! 

ENJOY!!