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Larpi Inc.
To see other work by Joan Pain visit
http://westwood.fortunecity.com/calvin/515/
Artist’s Statement:
There is something beautiful, even fascinating in the way nature reclaims the past. I have always been drawn to it. I have watched it slowly take my childhood home. I have seen the old photographs, that remind me that the past was not a dream, woven with the colors of today.
I have spent years wandering the prairies, searching out any sign of old farmsites. Searching for some clue to what had once been, and to the stories there. I knew the stories of our old farm, the flowers, the lawns, the tennis court, the bowling greens, the garden parties. Hopes and dreams, that will soon be lost to even me.
As I pursued this fascination, I realized I was part of the last generation who remembers farming before mechanization and the way of life that went with it. The last threshing crew went through our farm when I was six. My father bought his first gas tractor the day I was born. More than my personal memories will fade when nature reclaims me.
I have found my own way to create a past I did not see, a memory I never knew. These new paintings have allowed me to break through the barrier of time, to catch the stories as they slip away without losing the beauty of the shrine that holds them.
I will continue to paint wildlife, it is this that gave me the courage to attempt something new. But there are elements of mystery and magic in this new work that draw me on.
The intention of this series is not to turn back the clock, nor to create a requiem for a way of life lost. But a tribute to the strength, the pride and the love of the land of those people, by whose example, we will continue to endure, to create, be we artist or farmer.
To see more work by this artist please go back to the Art Postcard home and look under the following subjects: animals, birds, cats, dogs, fantasy, buffalo, landscapes, etc.
Or visit
http://www.espectro.com/japy/index.cfm
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