New Paintings for Bausch & Lomb Show

Over the holiday break, I delivered 10 paintings to the Bausch & Lomb headquarters on N. Goodman St in Rochester for a show there. I am proud to be shown among quite a number of Rochester artists who are doing exciting work. I painted these 5 paintings between Thanksgiving and New Year's. Whew!

Strange Bedfellows IV
24" H x 28" W
oil on canvas
$600

Coming of Spring
24" H x 28" W
acrylic on canvas
$600

New Directions24" H x 28" W
oil on canvas
$600 

Immune
22" H x 30" W
oil on canvas
$600

What the Thunder Said
24" H x 28" W
oil on canvas
$600

To purchase any of these or others from previous posts, please email me at: lyn_parsons@yahoo.com. Thanks!

A few more paintings

Strange Bedfellows 3
oil on canvas
29” h x 41.5” w
$800 

Strange Bedfellows 2
oil on canvas
21” h x 25” w
sold 

Enmeshed
oil on canvas
21” h x 17” w
sold 

Ground, background, grounded.

After a show is hung is a great time to reflect on what the paintings are saying. With these paintings, as I said, I didn’t really know where they were taking me, so now I'm finding that I’m learning a lot by listening to them. I’ve been thinking about the ground. It is literally the ground—looking straight down at it from a satellite. And the regular patterns are grounding, as is nature for humans. 

And then there is another level, which is “the ground” in Buddhism. From Kuntuzangpo’s prayer:

Everything — appearance and existence, samsara and nirvana —


Has a single Ground, yet two paths and two fruitions,


And magically displays as Awareness or unawareness.

So we make our own experience. The ground is there with all of the material for us to put together: emotions, interactions, jobs, people, good drivers, bad drivers, grumpy or friendly store clerks, capsized sailboats or smooth sailing, good weather or bad. It’s up to us to interpret according to our beliefs and to structure our experience into pleasure or pain.

Installation at the Little Theatre

It's finally up! My walls at home are naked now that everything has moved to the cafe. Stop by and see the show any time the theatre is open. It's up until June 21st.

My helpers...Kathy

Rhea

and "Sticky Fingers Sophia"

Putting up labels

In Process

It always happens as I get near a show, that my work space starts to take over the rest of the house! Here I've taken over the kitchen table for the last painting. Looking forward to eating in the kitchen again soon!

Not that I don't like birds!

They're gorgeous. A joy to paint. The colors. The feathers. And especially the eyes. The beaks. Their slickness.

24" x 30"
oil on canvas
sold

But the eyes. Some so big, some small. Amazing how unstandardized they are when ours are so standard. Colors that would never appear in human eyes.

And with camouflage patterns around the eyes to disguise their shape. Probably some message to predators.

Little Theatre Show

Sometimes I start to paint or make a sculpture without knowing what it’s about. And I often think that it’s my hands which know and make without letting my conscious mind in on the secret until much, much later in the process. That has been the case with this series of paintings.

Bird's Eye View

17” h x 21” w, framed

oil on canvas

NFS

What I do know is that I have always been intrigued by the patterns of crop circles and farm fields when flying over the mid-section of the country on my way home from my sister’s house in Colorado. Especially in western Kansas, the landscape is geometric: full of circles, squares, stripes. As my trips are nearly always around the holidays, the colors are usually a mix of snowy pastels.

Avian Geometry II

17” h x 21” w, framed

oil on canvas

$300

There is something that makes my heart beat faster to see the interaction of the natural and the man-made, circular geometries interacting with miles of wiggling rivers or untamable terrain. Pac-man half-circles eating up shrubbery-looking (from miles above) forested mountains.

Camouflaged Paradox

17” h x 21” w, framed

oil on canvas

$300

These landscapes, along with my birds, have become metaphors for an interior landscape representing the tensions inherent in all relationships. The interactions of people unconscious of their effects on others. The push-pull. The give and take. Poking and pestering. Non-stop wood-peckering. 

Pileated 
17” h x 21” w, framed
oil on canvas
sold 

The paintings lead. I follow.