Margie - Original

Oil on Canvas
51 x 77cm (20"x30")
2023
 
Meet Margie,
The name Margie means “pearl”.
 
In this painting I was exploring the human journey through life, and how creation and the environment mirrors this adventure symbolically.
 
Like a pearl, we all go through many stages of growth and refinement during a lifetime. This can take many forms, and at our core we are shaped by internal and external pressures and changes. 
Pearls are unique as they are the only gemstone created by a living creature. Most gems are created underneath the earth's crust, however pearls start to form when a tiny piece of sand gets into the mollusc, they are made under water which in itself is symbolically rich. Water, in many cultures, carries important spiritual significance - and points toward healing, cleansing, re-birth and deliverance.
 
Eventually the pearl shows its beauty and value as it comes full circle.
It's a prized possession, and shows a multitude of colours when illuminated by the Light.
 
-Part of the Reflections Series
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I'm so fascinated by LIGHT, and the science of it. 

Mainly because through the ages light has been associated with spirituality and I want to explore this in a new series of paintings called Reflections. 

Light is symbolically rich and carries many secrets and treasures that we do not fully understand - just like the spiritual realm. I am no physicist or linguistical (is that even a word?) genius so for me to write about all the intricacies of light and colour, and how it shadows the things of Heaven is quite impossible...but I can try to paint it. 

I appreciate the beauty in creation and how practically everything on earth is fed by light. And if "God is light" (1 John1:5) and we "may be called children of light" (John 12:36) then I want to explore that relationship - and hopefully come to a better understanding of what I am.