Lorna Nakell

I have been in the studio again working on some more paintings incorporating figurative imagery.  I have been reading and thinking about travel, nature and adventures.  I think these new paintings reflect that.

This is what’s brewing in my studio:

These are two new paintings.  The one on the left is based on a poem about a spider web called “For Want of a Corner” by a Gresham, OR poet by the name of Tyler C. Pedersen.

To create the web I did a sketch based on the photo of a real web then cut it out with an Exacto.

This is how the painting looks with these first two layers.  There will be more cut paper images as well as hand-painted images that will go on top.

This painting was inspired by my son Calder’s current fascination with dandelions.

I’m not sure where this painting is going yet.

This painting took a new direction when I started thinking about colonization.  I was thinking about a voyage to America from Grenada and people’s origins.