Sons et Lumieres

This vintage original nascent, watercolour glaze of golden Aspen trees shimmering in the autumnal Colorado winds was recently retrieved, complete... more

by Laurel Adams

Original - Not For Sale

Price

Not Specified

Dimensions

11.000 x 14.000 inches

Title

Sons et Lumieres

Artist

Laurel Adams

Medium

Painting - Watercolour

Description

This vintage original nascent, watercolour glaze of golden Aspen trees shimmering in the autumnal Colorado winds was recently retrieved, complete with frisket after more than a decade, from my travel archives. In a perfect watercolour world, masking fluid is applied and generally removed for further painting development within 24-36 hours. I gingerly rubbed against hard rubber areas, flipped the painting for possible salvage and remembered its “story”. Rick and I had flown to Estes Park, CO for a much needed, long weekend connect during the corporate never-ending business trip days with Ma Adams in rehab for yet another major health “event”. While he loves the ocean, I love mountain deep woods and streams and this was MY Dreamscape. We drove the crazy-dangerous, one way meander thru the beauty of Estes, visited the continental divide and made it to the tundra elevations before I realized I had mountain sickness. This painting was my mental construct of remembering the beauty of scintillating golden leaves while hearing its delicate symphony of wind notes chime …in a clump of parking lot trees outside the car window as I waited for a prescription Rick was picking up for me on our way back from the Emergency Room to the hotel. I had vowed to paint them on our return home. This was their …beginning…and then came: moving Ma to the nursing home, transitioning my student classes to another watercolorist, Rick’s fourth corporate move, my building our retirement home…and, they were wedged in a folder, masked and forgotten until recently. As I touched its scars. I couldn’t bring myself to desert them and so…THIS original version contains their “Sons et Lumières”, the French name for an outdoor symphonic concert which pairs with a Colour changing-fountain event that moves and scintillates to the notes of the music…If I close my eyes, I SEE and HEAR their Beauty calling me…to finish them. More to follow…
HOMEPAGE FEATURES:
10/3/21- celebrate trees, thanks Conni

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September 27th, 2021