The Queen of Peace
This painting is so many things to me. I put all the tension, all the false binaries, all my love into this painting. The Queen of Peace is surrounded by a tempest. She is in the eye of the storm; she brings the calm to eye of the storm. She has the serenity to accept what she cannot change; courage to change what she can; wisdom to know the difference.
The Queen of Peace (Florence + the Machine x The Tempest) is a 20 x 20-inch mixed media on canvas. It is finished with UV archival spray-on varnish. This piece is sold unframed; please contact Elle if you would like to arrange framing in a white float frame prior to purchase and shipping.
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.
This painting is so many things to me. I put all the tension, all the false binaries, all my love into this painting. The Queen of Peace is surrounded by a tempest. She is in the eye of the storm; she brings the calm to eye of the storm. She has the serenity to accept what she cannot change; courage to change what she can; wisdom to know the difference.
The Queen of Peace (Florence + the Machine x The Tempest) is a 20 x 20-inch mixed media on canvas. It is finished with UV archival spray-on varnish. This piece is sold unframed; please contact Elle if you would like to arrange framing in a white float frame prior to purchase and shipping.
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.
This painting is so many things to me. I put all the tension, all the false binaries, all my love into this painting. The Queen of Peace is surrounded by a tempest. She is in the eye of the storm; she brings the calm to eye of the storm. She has the serenity to accept what she cannot change; courage to change what she can; wisdom to know the difference.
The Queen of Peace (Florence + the Machine x The Tempest) is a 20 x 20-inch mixed media on canvas. It is finished with UV archival spray-on varnish. This piece is sold unframed; please contact Elle if you would like to arrange framing in a white float frame prior to purchase and shipping.
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.
The Queen of Peace is a song by Florence + the Machine
