How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
I started this collection with the intention of focusing on my fear of drowning. Like all things, my relationship with water is much more complex than I thought. It’s big, blue, beautiful… and still terrifying. It’s so many things I never fit into a painting. but I think I got pretty close with this one.
How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (Florence + the Machine x The Tempest) is a 18x24-inch mixed media on paper. It is finished with UV archival spray-on varnish. This piece is sold un-matted, and shipped rolled up in a postal tube.
We make every attempt to represent colors as accurately as possible, but be aware that differences among screens and paint pigments may result in variations. Please read our Shipping and Return Policy before purchasing.
I started this collection with the intention of focusing on my fear of drowning. Like all things, my relationship with water is much more complex than I thought. It’s big, blue, beautiful… and still terrifying. It’s so many things I never fit into a painting. but I think I got pretty close with this one.
How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (Florence + the Machine x The Tempest) is a 18x24-inch mixed media on paper. It is finished with UV archival spray-on varnish. This piece is sold un-matted, and shipped rolled up in a postal tube.
We make every attempt to represent colors as accurately as possible, but be aware that differences among screens and paint pigments may result in variations. Please read our Shipping and Return Policy before purchasing.
I started this collection with the intention of focusing on my fear of drowning. Like all things, my relationship with water is much more complex than I thought. It’s big, blue, beautiful… and still terrifying. It’s so many things I never fit into a painting. but I think I got pretty close with this one.
How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (Florence + the Machine x The Tempest) is a 18x24-inch mixed media on paper. It is finished with UV archival spray-on varnish. This piece is sold un-matted, and shipped rolled up in a postal tube.
We make every attempt to represent colors as accurately as possible, but be aware that differences among screens and paint pigments may result in variations. Please read our Shipping and Return Policy before purchasing.
Water is rife with tension; it is the source of creation and destruction. The literary canon is filled with characters who tangle with the power of water and its gods: from Odysseus and Prospero, to the films of James Cameron and Hayao Miyazaki.
This series — The Third Eye of the Storm — began as a meditation on my fear of drowning; I began working while watching a gender-bent adaptation of The Tempest starring Helen Mirren as Prospera. The primary relationship of the play suddenly mother-daughter, I was thrust into an unexpected tempest of my own, processing my evolving relationship as my mother’s caregiver after years of navigating this stormy relationship.
Water is the source of life; so, too, our mothers. The ocean’s dance with the moon is one that has been worshiped and celebrated through ritual and art for millennia. That tension – the pull between the ocean and the moon, between life and death, creation and destruction, mothers and their children, vengeance and love–is the source of this body of work.
How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful is titled for a song by the same name by Florence + the Machine
