"Hope Has A Place"
Original artwork by Lara-Jane Stewart
Artwork details:
14.8cm x 21cm (A5) on 300gsm 100% cotton Arches watercolour paperMixed media: Watercolour, InkTense pencil, acrylic ink, stabilo pencil, water soluble crayon
About:
This piece wasn't created with a big message in mind. I simply wanted to paint something beautiful - something warm, colourful and full of life.
But as I sat with it afterwards, I realised it carried a quiet feeling of hope.
When I contemplate the stems of these flowers and buds I think, "how can they hold these dense and radiant flowers up the way like that, against gravity the way they do?". They seem so delicate, and yet, they are full of strength.
They are resilient and bold, simply going about their being. Rising and standing tall, and likely under changing conditions that are both favourable and unfavourable at times. Just like us.
They are somehow propelled from within by the mysterious flow of life force, as we are.
They turn their faces toward the sun... towards life... just like us. And in this magnificent expression of their being, I for one and reminded and re-inspired to "hope".
I hope that you may also feel this and the medicine flowing from the colours as well. May it remind you of the life force flowing through you, the strength and courage you are filled with, and the beauty that you too radiate into the world.