Remembering Vanessa Cowl KAL

 

The weather has been really unpredictable lately but we know spring is just round the corner.

Down here at the Honeysuckle Studio I have been planning what all to grow (apart from honeysuckle of course). Do you remember in this post I mentioned about the "Remembering Vanessa Cowl Kal" project?

Well I have just started working on the second chapter which was out already few days back. It was so wonderful to see that second chapter was based on Vanessa's love for gardening.  Christina Wall who started this whole project in Ravelry also put some links on Vanessa's beautiful garden.

 So I chose some spring colours for the second chapter of the cowl. It is knitted in round. Will be a very snuggly cowl.

 

Meanwhile, I am still enjoying my dry poppy heads (from my garden last year) and happily sowing seeds for this year; planning my summer garden.

My Voice

Work in progress...



Detail of work in progress.

There are so many ways to stray from your own personal voice. When I took painting more seriously and started painting and exhibiting in India, I was actually painting for others. I was painting what other people may or may not like. Also when I joined HND in Fine Arts in Stafford Collage and came across most amazing teacher whom I would call real Guru. He gave his 100% to students. He taught us not because he was just an art teacher but because he was passionate about art. I remember him saying to me when I started painting Abstract paintings that "you need to feel it" only then it will happen. First I couldn't understand how could I feel what I am painting. I paint because that's what I like to do. Then I joined Derby University for BFA(HONS) and slowly as I painted more and more abstract Landscape, I could understand what my teacher meant by "Feeling". At the beginning my paintings were either over worked or had no energy. With time and practice I have overcome a lot of those issues and each new painting is a learning curve. When I paint I am completely lost in a different world and I can shut myself up. Then the dialogue is just between me and the work surface. The painting dictates me where I should go and when I should stop. Most importantly I paint what I like to paint, now, I have found my own voice.

Above is the image of my new mixed media painting which I am working on now.