Little Gems

The memories were there, but the string of time that linked them like a pearl necklace was broken.

Peter Robinson

  • Written on the Sky (2023)

    Unique hand-finished monotype with mixed media on Hahnemühle pure cotton etching paper 22x22cm Framed

  • Where She Believed (2023)

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  • With Love Always (2023)

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  • Of Unspoken Languages (2023)

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  • To Speak of Solitude (2023)

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  • The Wordsmith (2023)

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  • To Cross the Constellations (2023)

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  • Sur Doigts (2023)

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  • Starry Blue Solitaires (2023)

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  • Reading between the Lines (2023)

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  • Sacred Dances (2023)

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  • Moments in Love (2023)

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  • Orpheus in the Sacred (2023)

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  • Letters from India (2023)

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  • Labyrinthine (2023)

    Unique hand-finished monotype with mixed media on Hahnemühle pure cotton etching paper 22x22cm SOLD

  • Into the Dream Mist (2023)

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  • In the interlude (2023)

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  • Faith in Strangers (2023)

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  • Ghost Dances (2023)

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  • Demiurgo Spirito (2023)

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  • Echo’s Answer (2023)

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  • Apollo & Zeus (2023)

    Unique hand-finished monotype with mixed media on Hahnemühle pure cotton etching paper 22x22cm SOLD

  • A Kind of Blue

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  • A Ghost in the Machine (2023)

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  • A Precious Year (2023)

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  • The Bluest Eye (2023)

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Artist notes:

There was a moment then, when it felt both suffocating and stifling - when the sheer size of everything always expanding, always bigger, always louder became a silencing. The empires and egos, corporations and kingdoms. The conquest of size - of the large, the monumental. It is a kind of greed. More. It’s as numbing as it is seductive. If monumentality inspires awe, what of the mustard seed?

In these little gems, there is a quiet refusal, a hushed rebellion, a whispered revolt against large, larger, largest. It’s an invitation to come close, nose to nose, skin on skin; to look, intimately, deeply.

An invitation to recalibrate the senses, to feel again the wonder. Wonder like a snowflake falling, the soft bright feel of it melting into warm skin.

A reminder of the myriad of small things that make up a life, an experience, a memory or even happiness, and love itself.

While working on these little gems, I realised I didn’t want a bigger larger life; absorbed as I became in each small gesture taking its space and claiming its own distinct voice; I wanted a life sensitive, attuned to see all the light and beauty, the wonder in the small.

In life’s little gems…