Thank you

Connections - SOLD during The Book Cove Opening

 

 

Thank you everyone for coming to my opening at The Book Cove and thank you for taking the time in offering your feedback. Your input helps me to grow in my pursuit to become the best I possibly can as an artist and as a person.

I tried to interact with all my visitors during my show the best I could. If I missed someone, please forgive me.

During my openings, feel free to approach me. By doing so, you will help me give you the attention you deserve.

I hope you had a great time.
Love to all,

Lili

Morning Thoughts: Feelings and Painting

People usually ask me how do I create my works. Because my work is based on emotions, it is difficult to explain it; but I will try.  Look at the image above. The night before this drawing, I watched a movie called Australia. In it a little boy grieves his mother's death by looking for solitude in the desert. He is by himself and it is late night. I felt a tremendous desire to hold that boy, to protect and to comfort him. Of course, I could not do that.

The following day, as I started my work, the first thing I placed on the paper was the butterflies. Then,  I was led to draw the subsequent images without really knowing what I was drawing. Until the drawing was completed, I did not have a full view of my design or  the intention to paint it. Once it was created, I realized that the drawing was my way of expressing the feelings I had in the previous night. The butterflies were my way of protecting the little boy,  of telling him that somewhere out there,  there was hope. That there was light in the sky and that he wasn't alone. The drawing allowed me to express those feelings, and somehow I felt he was forever protected in my heart.

Inspiration

Liberation

Inspiration comes in many flavors. To me, it comes as phrases, dreams, scenes from human relationships. They arise not from the subjects themselves, but from the emotions they convey by their behavior:  their love, their peace, their happiness, their desperation, their fear, their pain...
In nature, my inspiration comes from the feelings its elements evoke: the wind in my skin, the water under my feet, the softness of the rain, the amplitude of the sky, the void between my body and the stars; and yet the feelings of connections existent in that void. In that tremendous dimension, I feel like a tine spectacle, an observer of life revealing itself. I am pleased and forever thankful.