sarah mcfadyen
expressive painter of northern landscape and story
Ripening
An Uncharted series
released May 2022
Lightning Bolts From The Ground
Skippi Geo
Birdbirds: The Idea From Which Ideas Spring
I run Downhill
So pure
Around well worn corners
Over the smoothest stones
I move through saturated Growth
Attached and reaching
I am thirsty for you
I long to contaminate
Myself with your dissolve
Until I start to dribble and gurgle
Finally my mouth opens
Migration
The Boatman
This Uncharted series has come about since the beginning of the year.. sketches and explorations drawing on themes related to the changes happening around me, seasonally and personally and universally.
Things appearing dormant but working away in the underground,
Stuff poking through and reaching for goodness,
The cycle of the elements,
The land of limbo once again limbering up,
Germination,
The used-to-be,
The what-will-be…
A Ripening.
Thaw
Way Back Under
Ripening
I found it hard to leave these paintings as uncharted and raw as my last Uncharted series…
I got a bit excited and made them all beautiful wooden box frames.
The Cross Over
Clinging To The Edge With Her Clothes Pegs
Unraveling
Thank you for visiting this Ripening land,
Wishing you a spring time of promise.
