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Bishy Bishy Barnabee
mixed media, oil on panel
45 x 67 inches (including handmade natural wood frame - 1/2 inch)
Bishy Bishy Barnabee. The ladybug surprisingly holds true as being a good luck bug throughout different religions. My favorite terminology for this in both the Christian and the Jewish faith is that they refer to a lady bug as “God’s (or Moses) little cow.”
Mantidae
mixed media, oil on panel
45 x 67 inches (including 1/2 inch handmade natural wood frame)
Mantidae. The Manic Prophet – a praying mantis is literally considered to be preying to the divine in a state of mania.
Buttorfleoge
mixed media, oil on panel
45 x 67 inches (including handmade natural wood frame - 1/2 inch)
Buttorfleoge, meaning “butter + fly”, it was an old belief that these insects were witches in disguise that came to steal butter or milk when left uncovered.
We Can Lie Down in the Taiga
mixed media, oil on panel
45 x 67 inches (including handmade natural wood frame - 1/2 inch)
We Can Frolic in the Woodlands
mixed media, oil on panel
31 x 45 inches (including handmade natural wood frame - 1/2 inch)
Jitters
mixed media, oil on panel
31 x 45 inches (including handmade natural wood frame - 1/2 inch)
Jitters. Butterflies have always held a meaning of nervousness. The unrequited love that creates jitters in one’s stomach.
Catepelose
mixed media, oil on panel
31 x 45 inches (including handmade natural wood frame - 1/2 inch)
Catepelose. French translation of “hairy cat”. The word caterpillar for a time, began to refer to the social dependents of the world. Shakespeare wrote famously “The caterpillars of the commonwealth, which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.”
Coleoptera
mixed media, oil on panel
45 x 67 inches (including handmade natural wood frame - 1/2 inch)
Coleoptera. The beetle. No other insect has such a divisive nature with mankind. To some they represent existential or ontological significance, to others, they represent a plague come to destroy. Regardless, there are 400,000 species and counting of beetles in the world. No escaping them.
Darandos
mixed media, oil on panel
45 x 31 inches (including handmade natural wood frame - 1/2 inch)
Darandos. The Tarantula. The entomology of the name finds roots in Old Italian, Taranto, which is a seaport in Italy, but it also comes from the Illyrian word Darandos, which is translated to mean “Oak”. There is something so beautiful and poetic about a spider being named after a tree.
Schnecke
mixed media, oil on panel
45 x 31 inches (including handmade natural wood frame - 1/2 inch)
Schnecke. Snails typically have a nature of being referred to as “slow” and thus are often referred to in the religious contexts as being akin to the sin of sloth, there is even a metaphorical punishment with snail’s slime. Yet my favorite fact about them was that some of their so called “slime” was used as a natural dye, and created incredibly blue and purple dyes, but the process of extracting this slime for these colors was long and arduous (aka slow), and so production made quantity limited, which meant only the wealthy could afford such colors. Hence, purple being associated with royalty.
We Can Get Lost in the Bush
mixed media, oil on panel
13 x 15 inches (including handmade natural wood frame - 1/2 inch)
*exact size to be confirmed
We Can Sing Amongst the Timbers
mixed media, oil on panel
13 x 13 inches (including handmade natural wood frame - 1/2 inch)
*exact size to be confirmed
We Can Whisper from the Fronds
mixed media, oil on panel
15 x 13 inches (including handmade natural wood frame - 1/2 inch)
Caterpillar
watercolor on paper
11 x 8.5 inches (plus frame)
Caterpillar 2
watercolor on paper
11 x 8.5 inches (plus frame)
Caterpillar 3
watercolor on paper
11 x 8.5 inches (plus frame)
Red Beetle
watercolor on paper
11 x 8.5 inches (plus frame)
Green Beetle
watercolor on paper
11 x 8.5 inches (plus frame)
Horned Beetle
watercolor on paper
11 x 8.5 inches (plus frame)
Black Beetle
watercolor on paper
11 x 8.5 inches (plus frame)
Ladybirds
watercolor on paper
11 x 8.5 inches (plus frame)
Ant
watercolor on paper
11 x 8.5 inches (plus frame)
Bee
watercolor on paper
11 x 8.5 inches (plus frame)
Butterfly
watercolor on paper
11 x 8.5 inches (plus frame)
Dragonfly
watercolor on paper
11 x 8.5 inches (plus frame)
Flies
watercolor on paper
11 x 8.5 inches (plus frame)
Moth
watercolor on paper
11 x 8.5 inches (plus frame)
Scorpion
watercolor on paper
11 x 8.5 inches (plus frame)