{"product_id":"blooming-iii","title":"Blooming III","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"\u003eMy African Garden\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"\u003eOver the past year, my studio transformed and became what I like to refer to as my ‘magic garden’. An environment of fantasy and wonder where I found myself spending hours exploring and playing. I found beauty in my artworks and the various materials that surrounded me.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"\u003eLike a garden I need light, and I allow this light to shine out of my work. Love is light.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"\u003eThis body of work is a celebration of life and its fragility.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"\u003eThis show comprises a body of new paintings, monoprints and etchings. The series of monoprints began evolving last year as a response to the death of my Mother. Her passion was her garden. Unlike the wild indigenous garden that I have surrounding my home, my mother’s garden was an English country-style garden, comprising of many exotic plants carefully pruned into compliance. She spent hours maintaining her garden, she planted in ‘beds’, along boundary walls and around the house: neat, orderly and clipped back.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eMy images of peonies, poppies and dahlias are a nostalgic reference to these past memories. Juxtaposed with images from my own indigenous garden, which is wild, unruly and left to self-seed and regenerate, as the seasons come and go. \u003c\/span\u003eThe Iris, referenced in my “Lie of the Land” series, represents a colonial, bygone era, blooming only for a short period of time. Its exotic, foreign beauty strangely out of place in the harsh highveld landscape.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"\u003eIn the “Cartographer’s Notes” series, I have worked onto the surface of found maps, which take on a more botanical theme. Plants and places that I have seen and visited, have re emerged onto the surface, in a bright and spontaneous way. The limited edition of etchings, with their sketch-like quality, denotes a field study, capturing the essence of a plant seen in nature, to be taken home and reworked in the studio.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e“But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.” - \u003cem\u003eAnselm Kiefer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"\u003eAll the prints were done in collaboration with printer \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bevandewet.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.bevandewet.co.za\/\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1664963920192000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw2sVycELUVZonexIj2Eg2d9\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eBevan de Wet\u003c\/a\u003e at Eleven Editions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Local Vendor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47737279021277,"sku":"Sue-Martin_Blooming-III","price":18400.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/7261\/1293\/files\/binder1_page_1_bd9e2e30-0a67-4f58-9182-0fa61047ab58.jpg?v=1775295317","url":"https:\/\/latitudes.online\/products\/blooming-iii","provider":"Latitudes Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}