Cedar Intimacy is a painting by Barbara Brown which was uploaded on October 30th, 2019.
Cedar Intimacy
This image captivated me in the forest.
First, up close and personal,
I fell in love with the pretty surface patterns
those intense green... more
Title
Cedar Intimacy
Artist
Barbara Brown
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
This image captivated me in the forest.
First, up close and personal,
I fell in love with the pretty surface patterns
those intense green twinkling cedar frond fingers make
as they reach for the sun at the edge of a clearing on the mountainside.
Playful with its offering of beauty, she revels in her aliveness.
Then ...I am invited to travel deeper;
to delve into the dark forest beyond the surface,
and there to be welcomed into the inner sanctum depths with, again,
a twinkle of sunshine.
And, as happens so often in my work, the oval comes to me, with its soft feminine welcoming geometry to help me to convey the feeling inherent in this offering.
These are Western Red Cedar (Thuja plicata) here in the Inland Temperate Rainforest. They grow to 130 feet tall and can live for 1,000 years.
Cedar is symbolic of the pure, the sublime and the sacred.
Uploaded
October 30th, 2019
