Video: Owl and all-all-all: interesting paintings by Kathleen Lolly about forest dreamers
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
As a child, future artist Kathleen Lolly loved to wander through the woods near her grandfather's farm. During her wanderings, she composed fairy tales about the life of the inhabitants of the forest. Where does the owl live? What kind of curtains does she have at home? Who does she drink tea with in the evenings? For example, a raccoon is a successful businessman, but what does an owl do for a living? Each animal in the stories of the little inventor received a funny biography and acquired habits. And until now, when Kathleen Lolly wanders through the same forest, she does the same thing - composes stories about animals. But the stories are getting darker and more confusing with age. And for some time now they have been turning into interesting paintings.
American Kathleen Lolly defines her style like this: "It's a cross between folk art and surrealism." When in the morning, having drunk a cup of coffee, the artist sits down to work, she is extremely interested in where this stormy fantasy will lead her this time. Her interesting paintings are surprising first of all for herself.
Music fosters inspiration. Internet radio and favorite performers, which sound during the work on the next film about the mesmerizing forest life, set Kathleen Lolly on the animal wave. The artist's fantasy is fueled by trips to the countryside, conversations about antiquity and the stories of her father.
Kathleen Lolley says her paintings are like illustrations from a forgotten children's book. What was discussed there, one can only guess from the remaining pictures. Lonely dreamers and creatures who unexpectedly found each other, a charming dark forest, sometimes terrible, sometimes benevolent. Melancholic paintings by the artist are somewhat reminiscent of the wonderful story of the Hedgehog in the Fog.
Soft and insinuating works attract your attention, and then it turns out that these are amazingly interesting paintings, they are much deeper than it might seem at first glance. Magic painting of a talented artist and is created in two stages. Kathleen Lolly says that at first, as a child, she comes up with a plot, fantasies and composes, and then, as an adult, she hones the details and works on the composition.
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