ON THE JOURNEY TO CELEBRATE LIFE


Artist Self Portrait (1991)
©️Arts Law Australia
Size: 120cm H x 130cm W
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
ARTWORK NO LONGER EXISTS IN THIS FORMAT
(Like the Artist it has evolved.)





Artist's Note:
Truth is when I painted this picture I didn't feel very loveable.
It was a low period in my life. Year 1 Art School 1991.
I had to really struggle to find any shades of colour at this time.

Oscar Wilde through a character in one of his plays says it poetically:-
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

My interpretation of what he is saying is that we are not here to master life. 
We need to let life master us. Not sure though that Oscar would have seen it that way!

We can fight it.
We can want everything to be the way we want "it" to be whether we're talking
about ourselves or everything around us. Control freaks. In charge.
But we're not.

The happiest people I've known and know 
accept their place and walk with life.

We need to learn to celebrate life. NW☺︎