I continue to bask in the blue sky memory:
Reflecting back to my indian experience ( Ireturned from a 2 week trip to Tamil Nadu in February- you can see some of the paintings I made there in my artist pages) I remember that I realised a long held ambition to lie in a hammock under a palm tree and gently sway in the warm breeze. I’ve always longed to do that and I have a photo to premind myself of it. It is a reminder of my surrender to inactivity – to being held between two strong yet elastic trunks with foliage providing shelter and sounds. Maybe I should surrender to inactivity before beginning working in a new environment. I might get a little closer to connecting with the place…at the very least I can experience what it is offering without any of the sort of effort I usually put in.
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PALM TREES UNDER BLUE SKIES
13th May 2010 | Subscribe via RSS4 Responses
Sounds like a plan to me! – Such a simple concept but one so often overlooked in the hurly burly of life – and I think you’re right – that connection – to the present moment and place is rich indeed.
14th May 2010
Lovely post, really evocative.
17th May 2010
I enjoyed meeting Frances at West Dean a few summers ago where she was teaching. I was doing a weeks course of sculpture in aluminium. I love her paintings, alive with the landscape that she makes them in.
20th May 2010
Thanks Julia. A great compliment – it is exactly what I try to do…but maybe ‘try’ is the wrong word- I work in a way that I hope integrates me and where I am through what I make.
I’m still teaching at West Dean…it never fails to tempt me back….every year for the past 20 in fact.
Actually I am just preparing for a biannual opening of my studio- I’ll mention something about the experience in my blog!
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Frances Hatch
Human beings have an unhealthy desire to homogenize, reducing infinite variety to a signpost. Frances Hatch creates joyful works that slow down the way we look at the world, encouraging us to attend to it, while restoring our capacity for wonder.
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