Sunflowers are the happiest of flowers and in this piece I wanted their vibrance and movement to be the centre of the painting rather than a completely realistic painting of a sunflower. All the use of primary colours, brush strokes, and palette knife markings have been applied to symbolise a dancing sunflower with its head…
Author: artbyeileen
I am a South African born artist, who has lived in 5 different countries in the last 20 years. I returned to South Africa in 2016 and I am now living in St Lucia, a small tropical village on the shores of the Indian Ocean. My rather unusual life experiences and travels have influenced my style and choice of subject matter. The rich desert colours, the vibrancy of the tropical flowers, all my paintings communicate my connection to the land and nature. Flowers are my main subject and I am inspired by layerings of colour, be it bright and ebullient, or understated and muted. Colour can evoke so many different responses in someone and my paintings speak to their viewer through their movement, colour and texture. Painting is my way of sharing the pleasure I derive from the beauty that surrounds me in nature and especially the flowers I so loves to paint. An ability to communicate all of this through granular sculptural textures, three dimensional application of paint and striking use of colour makes my art work bold and engaging.
St Olga; The most unsaintly of Saints!
Though a saint in both the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, Olga of Kiev gives the impression of being as unsaintly as one woman could possibly be. She’s one of the most vicious and vengeful rulers in the history of the Kievan Rus’ – the principality that would eventually give birth to modern…
Toad of toad hall…
My Mother grew up with Kenneth Grahame’s famous novel The Wind in the Willows, and in turn so did we. I still have the most beautiful illustrated copy of this incredible book. I am also convinced it was from this very book that my mother’s obsession and fascination with all things frog began. If you…
The Rhinoceros tale
How the rhinoceros got his skin is from the collection “The just So Stories for Little Children”. A wonderful collection of stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling, a collection of stories I remember being read to by my grandmother when she came to visit. The book is among Kipling’s best known works, and one I…
A Crash of Rhino’s
I love rhino’s! In spite of their large and intimidating stature they are so vulnerable and gentle, and extremely sensitive to their environment. Very gentle giants! Rhinos are one of the largest land mammals alive after Elephants. They have existed on Earth for over 50 million years and once roamed through North America and Europe…
A piggy pair
This 30 X 30 cm deep edge canvas brings my pig series to an end… For now at any rate.
Three little pigs…
I love pigs! I would love a pig, but for now that want is on hold. In the meantime, till the time is right I paint piggy’s… Pigs may be indiscriminate eaters, but they are also highly intelligent and incredibly social animals. Highly trainable and can learn at a much faster rate than dogs. Pig behaviour…
Christmas VDM style
I love the Christmas tradition and how our family comes together over Christmas time. As expatriates we never had the pleasure of celebrating Christmas in our home country with dear friends and family. Living in foreign countries we adopted all sorts of other countries traditions for Christmas and created our own unique and rather eclectic…
Pigs & Bunny Rabbits
I am currently busy with a series of animals. Originally commissioned for a little girls bedroom modelled in the French country style. The room incorporated a lot of the elements of the French country design – ruffles, distressed woodwork, mixed patterns, with a few vibrant colours as accents but mostly all very subdued hues. Once…
Aloe Africana
Aloe Africana Size: A4 (20 X 30 cm) Albrecht Durer water colour pencil crayons On cold pressed 200gm paper The 1st in a series of aloes that I have completed.
Sweets & treats
The last couple of days I have been busy with drawings of cupcakes and macarons. They are becoming hugely popular as a form of decorative art for newborns and little girls bedrooms. They are fun, quick and easy to draw. The only downside is they leave me craving cupcakes and macarons! I do the initial…
Pink tulip unfolds
Created for a friend for her birthday. Pink Tulip Acrylic on 15 X 15 X 4 cm Colours used: White Cadmium red Alizarin Crimson Cadmium orange medium Hunters green Indigo Raw umber Rose blush Violet oxide
