~MEMORIAL PAINTINGS~
MEMORIAL PAINTINGS
For my daughter Kimberley Dia de los Muertos 2022
For my daughter Kimberley Dia de los Muertos 2022
Why is this image eveywhere?
While working on a memorial painting for my daughter in 2022 for Dia de los Muertos, this animal just appeared on the canvas. Unlikely as this sounds, it is true. I had wiped some excess paint off the canvas and left to do something unrelated to painting. When I returned and looked at the canvas, there he was. Just as it looks, I have not done anything other than tape a piece of waxed paper over it so I wouldn’t unintentionally paint over him. This image has huge symbolic meaning to us.
In 2018, I lived in Boulder City, Nevada, where my daughter Kimberley visited me several times. She always enjoyed it there and told me so several times. There is a herd of Bighorn Sheep that you can see in Hemenway Park most of the year. They even wander into the yards of people who live on or near Lake Mead.
The appearance of this Bighorn sheep in my painting astounded me. I admittedly often need reminders that my daughter is still with me, and this was a huge sign to me.
These paintings were created for people I love and have lost.
All are painted with BioShield clay paint on a 24” x 24” or 36” x 36" canvas.
For my daughter Kimberley Dia de los Muertos 2022
For my daughter Kimberley Dia de los Muertos 2022
For my daughter Kimberley Dia de los Muertos 2022
36” x 36” canvas
Sugar skull
Bighorn sheep
Anmmonites
Talavera tiles:
- Frida Kahlo
- 2” sun/moon
Tibetan silver charms
sewn onto the canvas with sinew:
- dolphin
- owl
- seahorse
- butterfly
For Richard
For my daughter Kimberley Dia de los Muertos 2022
For Richard
24” x 24” canvas
· Bird in Yuma
· Ceramic sculpture in Virginia City
· Deer
· Route 66
· Oatman, AZ bdonkey foal
· Flying pigs
· Lucy
· Fishing lure
· Alien skull: Virginia City
· Corn
· Washington’s Stonehenge
· Cow goddess
· Tibetan silver charms, stitched on canvas with sinew:
· Horse
· Feather
· Cat…Lucy
· Yin/yang/yang symbol
·Document on back stitched with sinew
For Donna
For my daughter Kimberley Dia de los Muertos 2022
For Richard
24” x 24” canvas
Cocoon carrying people she loved connected to the central force
Sinew sewn up the ‘spine’ of the cocoon to connect areas of the painting symbolically as well as visually
- Tibetan silver Tree of Life charm sewn onto the canvas with sinew.
- Anasazi beans
- Venus of Willendorf
- Moon
- Sun
- Cow goddess
- Cocoon
- Alchemy
- Herbalist
- Elements
- Spirit guides
- Birds
- Plants