Painting size….320 x 510cm
Watercolour, Gouache , Coloured Pencil
Dancing pearls of Life was painted in 1995 when I had just started to give a written description with each painting. At that time, although I found it easy to depict my thoughts and feelings in to painted images, I had difficulties in fully expressing those same thoughts and feelings in to the written and spoken word. As I wrote the words for this painting they insisted on being in rhyme, something I had not intended but then, my work has always controlled me…..
From intense earth-brown eyes firstly colours begin controlled, tiny brush-strokes draw-out feelings within.
Deep in my soul something magical grows, to release kaleidoscope images in to watery flows.
This spirit of earth wears a halo of life, that belongs to us all our inherited birth rite.
A rat painted calls upon man, its confronting stare to say.
“Live in your environment so you will not see the day, when this precious inheritance gasps for breath and its life-force slips away.”
Amongst the precious metals, laboured from the ground, a lizards gem-like scales reflect the treasure that’s all around.
For each second of each passing day brings more than bloodied gold, if we could open our closed eyes we would truly see, the energies combine to bring us harmony.
A silver moon swings freely from a chain of gold and reflects an eerie glow, that plays upon our minds and controls the oceans flow.
The suns power of burning energy, unending flames take flight, to stream upon the earth in rays of life-filled light.
Tiny folds of a tight-stitched weave tumble to ocean depths below, squeezing through cracks and crevices where grasses and corals grow.
And upon the moons command, as it guards the deep, dark night, the corals fill the seas with dancing pearls of life.
Carol Ann O’Connor
“Dancing Pearls of Life”
