Sandra Allik

.........every attempt
Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure....
And so each venture
Is a new beginning......

There is only the fight to recover what has been lost
And found and lost again and again: and now,under conditions
That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss.
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

T.S. Eliot "East Coker"


Portfolio:

All the World's a Stage

These images represent my most recent work where, using the figure of an animal as actor, I attempt to create a lush canvas full of colors that invites the viewer to ask what is happening.

#1 RED (sold) “#1 RED (sold)”

24" x 48"
Acrylic on canvas

#1 BLUE “#1 BLUE”

24" x 30"
Acrylic on canvas

#1 TEAL “#1 TEAL”

24" x 44"
Acrylic on canvas

#2 BLUE “#2 BLUE”

24" x 30"
Acrylic on canvas

#3 BLUE (sold) “#3 BLUE (sold)”

30" x 24"
Acrylic on canvas

Newfoundland

I spent a month in a village outport in Newfoundland where the red fish stores compelled me to paint these images.
These paintings start as complex oil paintings but end up as more simplified acrylic paintings.

Salvage “Salvage”

Oil on canvas

Burden's Point (sold) “Burden's Point (sold)”

36" x 24"
Oil on canvas

Burden's Point 2 “Burden's Point 2”

17" x 14"
Acrylic on canvas

Blue Boat “Blue Boat”

12" x 16"
Acrylic on canvas

Burden's Point 3 “Burden's Point 3”

14" x 17"
Acrylic on canvas

Village “Village”

16" x 12"
Acrylic on canvas

Night “Night”

47.55" x 12"
Acrylic on canvas

Ibiza

We spent twelve years on the island of Ibiza where I discovered the light of the south.

The Black Cat “The Black Cat”

44" x 58"
Oil on canvas

The Road Home (sold) “The Road Home (sold)”

27" x 39"
Oil on canvas

Santa Ines “Santa Ines”

30" x 24"
Oil on canvas

The Old Man “The Old Man”

17" x 24"
Oil on canvas

Val d'Araby (sold) “Val d'Araby (sold)”

28" x 38"
Oil on canvas

I can't go on. I'll go on.

With these paintings I am attempting to marry words and abstraction.
The full titles are the words incorporated.

Hemmed In  (sold) “Hemmed In (sold)”

Full title: HEMMED IN BY THE BLUES
24" x 36"

Acrylic on canvas

No Place is Home (sold) “No Place is Home (sold)”

Full title: NO PLACE IS HOME AGAIN, NOT EVEN YOUR BODY.
40" x 30"
Acrylic on canvas

The Future is Only the Past Again “The Future is Only the Past Again”

Full title: THE FUTURE IS ONLY THE PAST AGAIN
ENTERED THROUGH ANOTHER GATE
24" x 36"
Acrylic on canvas

Santa Barbara 2009 “Santa Barbara 2009”

The 2009 fires.
Acrylic on canvas

The Struggle of Memory “The Struggle of Memory”

Full title: THE STRUGGLE OF MEMORY AGAINST FORGETTING
24" x 20"
Acrylic on canvas

Other

A mixed bag

Ronda “Ronda”

Oil on canvas

Meminisse “Meminisse”

Oil on canvas

My Dream “My Dream”

20" x 20"
Oxidized copper on canvas