Music of the Salty Winds #12706

Description

With its masterful use of materials, textures and surfaces, this large oil painting on plexiglass expresses Lark’s awe and reverence for nature’s influence and its role in our everyday lives:

“Nature for me is alive, tender, joyful and suffering,” Lark states. “She tells me about her feelings and helps me to share mine through art and poetry, giving me energy, inspiration and healing when I feel physical or emotional pain.”

Lark’s ability to create orchestrated visual stories is strikingly seen in the combination of joy and pain depicted in this work. Here one can see the unique play of continually changing lights on the ocean’s surface, with sky and stones seeming to melt together like the joyous and tragic moments of our life experiences. As in most of her land- and seascapes, the ever present sun provides a calming glow to counteract the pulsating force of the pounding waves.

The following lines from an original Lark poem echo this painting’s lyrical sentiment:

 

I still could hear                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

The music of the salty winds

Imprinted in the sleeping shore stones