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My most recent floral series deals with flowers in a painterly, serendipitous style, where the essence of the flowers and the emotions they evoke are given preference to mere replication. For this reason I rarely paint the vase, vessel or container that holds the blooms. The interest is in the mark making, the emotions and the viewer’s reaction to the blooms. Why flowers you may ask? Their significance in our daily lives is immeasurable, as expressions of emotions that are often too complicated to express in words. We use flowers to celebrate life, death, marriage, birth, apology and appreciation. We use them to celebrate the somber and the joyful and have adapted them into something decorative, an ode to beauty. The semiotics of flowers can be traced through to ancient times. The simple bloom has become a metaphor for the abstract and a symbol of reproduction, birth, life, death, decay and rebirth. Flowers are a celebration of life and a way of expressing our most vulnerable reactions to it. Through flowers we can express that which we find hard or complicated to say. Painting has been removed from the Stretcher for easy postage. It can be re-stretched or framed.
My most recent floral series deals with flowers in a painterly, serendipitous style, where the essence of the flowers and the emotions they evoke are given preference to mere replication. For this reason I rarely paint the vase, vessel or container that holds the blooms. The interest is in the mark making, the emotions and the viewer’s reaction to the blooms. Why flowers you may ask? Their significance in our daily lives is immeasurable, as expressions of emotions that are often too complicated to express in words. We use flowers to celebrate life, death, marriage, birth, apology and appreciation. We use them to celebrate the somber and the joyful and have adapted them into something decorative, an ode to beauty. The semiotics of flowers can be traced through to ancient times. The simple bloom has become a metaphor for the abstract and a symbol of reproduction, birth, life, death, decay and rebirth. Flowers are a celebration of life and a way of expressing our most vulnerable reactions to it. Through flowers we can express that which we find hard or complicated to say. Painting has been removed from the Stretcher for easy postage. It can be re-stretched or framed.
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April Blooms Painting

Heidi Shedlock

South Africa

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 29.9 W x 29.9 H x 1.2 D in

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My most recent floral series deals with flowers in a painterly, serendipitous style, where the essence of the flowers and the emotions they evoke are given preference to mere replication. For this reason I rarely paint the vase, vessel or container that holds the blooms. The interest is in the mark making, the emotions and the viewer’s reaction to the blooms. Why flowers you may ask? Their significance in our daily lives is immeasurable, as expressions of emotions that are often too complicated to express in words. We use flowers to celebrate life, death, marriage, birth, apology and appreciation. We use them to celebrate the somber and the joyful and have adapted them into something decorative, an ode to beauty. The semiotics of flowers can be traced through to ancient times. The simple bloom has become a metaphor for the abstract and a symbol of reproduction, birth, life, death, decay and rebirth. Flowers are a celebration of life and a way of expressing our most vulnerable reactions to it. Through flowers we can express that which we find hard or complicated to say. Painting has been removed from the Stretcher for easy postage. It can be re-stretched or framed.

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Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:29.9 W x 29.9 H x 1.2 D in

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Heidi Shedlock is a South African, Durban based artist who paints from her studio in Durban North. She was born in 1974 and grew up in a very creative family of talented crafters and makers. She spent many years involved in education before deciding to give up full time teaching and put all her energy and focus back into producing her own work. Her work finds narrative in expressive florals that communicate the response to the blooms rather than the realistic depiction of them. Flowers are so often used as a means of communicating, especially when words are harder to use. They express grief, gratitude, thanks and so much more. They are present bystanders at most life events and occasions and provide beauty and joy and reflections on life's journey. Heidi underpins or embeds these bouquets or florals in textures and patterns that pay homage to the matrilineal. Patterns of lace, the hand stitched and fabric are like traces of memory embedded in the surfaces of many of her works.

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