Ekphrasis: Art inspired by other Art- across forms

On-line People' s Choice Award for Ekphrasis 2022.

Dimensions: 19 x 38 x 27
About your piece:: The framework for this boat and the ladder are weeping willow branches. The casing of the boat is wet-felted fleece. The joints are copper wire. The stitching is black thread. Irish poet John O'Donohue's poem "Beannacht / Blessing" inspired me to create this piece to honour the heartbreaking life and recent death of a very old friend. I wanted to metaphorically give her a soft and gentle landing after living a long and challenging life. Listen to O'Donohue read his poem here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRNjJ09T-VE while you view this piece.

Juror's Choice Award

Dimensions: 20 x 24 x 1.5
About your piece:: This digital print (photograph) on fibre was inspired by the writing of "The Dean of Western Writers", Wallace Stegner, with a soundtrack by the Tragically Hip.

Juror's Choice Award

Dimensions: 24 x 36 x 1
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About your piece:: This work is part of The Arrangements Series, inspired by flower bouquets, created to music. It is a Hybrid scanographic planograph using dye-sublimation on a metal floating frame.

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Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 1.5
About your piece:: Inspired by the Tom Waits song, Hang On St. Christopher tells the story of a young man on a wild ride who asks the patron saint of travel to hang on because he's letting the devil take the wheel tonight.

Dimensions: 18 x 24 x 1.5
About your piece:: This was painted to Bob Dylan's song "When the Night comes falling from the sky" which I have always loved. Even though my interpretation of the song is that it is an ending of a relationship, I find the song energizing and powerful. The words seem angry but also motivating and the music is exhilarating.

Dimensions: 36 x 46 x 1.5
About your piece:: This painting is inspired by the poem of W.H. Auden “If I Could Tell You”. 1940. About the passage of time and the impossibility of knowing the future. About the impact of time on mankind and the confusion of one’s own mortality.

Dimensions: 49 x 68.5
About your piece:: This work offers a visual translation of a three-line comment by environmental author Rachel Carson, about the significance of our insignificance.

Dimensions: 20 x 10
About your piece:: Inspired by the poem The Lily Pad Pond by Pamela Storch

Dimensions: 8 x 10
About your piece:: Inspired by the song Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell

Dimensions: 20 x 24 x 1.5
About your piece:: This digital print (photograph) on fibre was inspired by the writing of "The Dean of Western Writers", Wallace Stegner, with a soundtrack by the Tragically Hip.

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Dimensions: 48 x 48
About your piece:: You Are the Sky (acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 48 x 48 in) is part of a studio project, Colourful Language, in which I create a colour-coded English alphabet to transcribe select quotes: words of inspiration, a joke, a scientific fact, a salty remark. My inspiration for this work is a quote from American Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön: “You are the sky. Everything else—it’s just the weather.”

Dimensions: 20 x 24 x 1.5
About your piece:: This digital print (photograph) on fibre was inspired by the writing of "The Dean of Western Writers", Wallace Stegner, with a soundtrack by the Tragically Hip.

Dimensions: 4 x 12 x 12
About your piece:: Sculpted from Carrara Marble, the piece represents the goddess Venus reclining on her shell bed asleep. It was inspired by the famous tempera painting by Botticelli (1484-1486) which shows Venus emerging from the sea after her birth (fully-grown); and arriving at the shore, having been transported on a shell. The sculpture took some 250 hours to complete utilizing fine diamond tools as part of its finish.

Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 1.5
About your piece:: Part of my "Little Black Dress" Series inspired by Audrey Hepburn in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Dimensions: 16 x 20 x 1.5
About your piece:: Part of my "Little Black Dress" Series inspired by Audrey Hepburn in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Dimensions: 30 x 24 x 1.5
About your piece:: Part of my "Little Black Dress" Series inspired by Audrey Hepburn in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Dimensions: 20 x 24 x 1.5
About your piece:: Ever walk into the woods by yourself? As I walked into the woods I realized how noisy the forest was. Every crack and creek, every snap and flutter, every wisp of the wind and hoot of an owl, every drop of a leaf and scamper of tiny feet was amplified to orchestral heights. It was music to my ears…albeit a little scary at times. The mysterious wonder of it all.

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Dimensions: 24 x 36 x 1
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About your piece:: This work is part of The Arrangements Series, inspired by flower bouquets, created to music. It is a Hybrid scanographic planograph using dye-sublimation on a metal floating frame.

Dimensions: 24 x 36
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About your piece:: This work is part of The Arrangements Series, inspired by flower bouquets, created to music. It is a Hybrid scanographic planograph using dye-sublimation on a metal floating frame.

Dimensions: 11 x 14 x 1.5
About your piece:: The forest is such a source of inspiration for me. It’s brutality, wisdom, and beauty are unending. The life lessons are abundant from the cycle of life, death to rebirth, new beginning, patience and extreme beauty. The calm, clarity and sense of wonder bring me such joy and the sounds are music to my ears.