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St Fiacre was a 7th century Irish saint who later built a monastery in France. He is the patron saint of STD sufferers, and gardening. He is typically depicted with a shovel as it pertains to his miracle, which was to turn over a prodigious amount of land after someone offered to give him as much land as he could turn in a day. He was assigned STDs, strangely, because a woman questioned his miracle and he henceforth banned all women from his monastery. I painted this tongue-in-cheek icon after my husband took a commission to paint a real icon of St. Mark, for a Catholic men’s group. I looked up saints to see if there were any unusual ones and Fiacre presented himself. I mix Eastern Orthodox iconography style with Roman Catholic use of Latin. The Latin writing on the painting translates to the name of the painting- Never Never Forget the Condoms. The HIV crisis gives the shovels a double meaning. The painting is on an 11 x 14 canvas board, but with the gilded frame the piece measures 15.5” x 18.5”. The shovels are Fimo and wood, and the embellishments include glass beads and mother-of-pearl. The piece also includes my signature glow paint so it is a different work when the lights go out.
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:8 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:13.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Yes
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The driving force of my art is curiosity. Each piece begins with the question “What if?” What if I use these colors, textures, materials, techniques, or objects together? Each work is a surprise package I get to slowly open. I study art, and in my head I divide the field between decorative art that people want in their homes, which is great, and “arty” art that is innovative, original, and sometimes gallery-worthy. I often fail but generally aim for the elusive territory between the two- attempting to create things pleasing to the eye that people might want to live with, while pushing out boundaries for both everyday and more sophisticated art lovers. A unique recurring feature of most of my work is the inclusion of photoluminescent strontium aluminate doped with rare earths. I make the pigments myself for maximum luminance. The works are thereby two compositions, one by day and a second, rather magical composition that appears at night. I employ super-bright child-safe minerals that shed light for 10 to 20 hours after exposure to any visible light, and that continue to be “re-excitable” for decades. I do not have a single style because my relentless curiosity leads me in many directions as I constantly explore new materials, tools, techniques, and “What if?” questions.
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