I enjoy landscapes and Plein Air painting as well for their preservation of the light and feeling evoked by a moment in time. They tell their own stories too.
Two worlds,
Teal silver or indigo iron.
One person
Reflected in blue and bronze.
This video shows a presentation given at the 2011 PAAC One Vision Project ekphrastic art event. I am enchanted by whale song, and here, it adds another dimension to the story. Click here for the video.
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Exhibits ~ gallery events ~ ventures
my ideas
Ekphrastic works
ocean vision
2 worlds
Horicon Marsh in the fall
horn section, myso
Spring
2024
Respective North exhibit with artists, Anne Raskopf and John Hallett, at the Oconomowoc Arts Center Jan. 19th - March 3rd. The exhibit features my oil paintings, Anne's acrylic paintings and John's bronze and glass sculptures.
Heidi C.J.Hallett
Oil painting, "Sky Sailing" accepted into the Go Figure show at Plymouth Arts Center in Plymouth, WI. March 8 - April 26, 2024.
January-March
2024
In The Lady with the Unicorn tapestry series created in the 1480s CE, it is generally accepted that the first five tapestries represent the five senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. The interpretation of the sixth tapestry, "À Mon Seul Désir," remains uncertain.[1] I propose that the French words, "à mon seul désir," translate to "with my unique desire," meaning that people are the only species that covet material objects even as we share the five senses with animals.
In the first five tapestries, one or more of the animals are shown utilizing the represented sense along with the women. However, in the final tapestry, only the two women are engaged in handling the golden necklace, while some of the animals seem to watch from afar. The blue tent in the last tapestry also serves to separate the human figures from the natural world, which includes the unicorn with its mythical qualities. The tent frames the lady handling her necklace with a strip of cloth and her maid and is not present in any of the previous tapestries.
The interpretation of people alone valuing material objects ties the individual representations of the six tapestries together and allows them to flow towards the realization that, while people may live alongside the natural and mythical worlds (which, in medieval times, were likely considered the same), they remain separate and not completely in either due to their unique desires.
1) Cavallo, Adolfo Salvatore. The Unicorn Tapestries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998. pp.99-100. Print.
Red Unicorn Tapestry, Oil, 20" x 24" Giclées available.
Past Exhibits
I am always intrigued by the way history and culture influence our interactions and perceptions, and I love exploring this influence through art. I see creative expression through poetry and painting as a way to collaborate, converse and bring awareness to our environment and the ways in which history and culture shape our views. I enjoy working with imagery to explore ideas considering these relationships. I often focus on the beauty and value inherent in the world's natural resources to highlight the importance of living responsibly alongside them. I find that art enables us to examine and appreciate life and am inspired when it offers a new perspective enriching our view or experience.
artist ~ poet aqua art ideas
This painting captures a slice of life and depicts part of the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra. The accompanying poem, Hunting Horn, alludes to the origin of the horn.
This is my 12th year of combining talents with Anne Raskopf to present an art exhibit at the Oconomowoc Arts Center. John Hallett has joined us in the past few years as well.
I continue working with the Gallery Committee for the Pewaukee Area Arts Council to bring art to the surrounding community and exhibit my work in the many PAAC shows that we arrange.
History
How is yesterday remembered?
A thought written down,
An image captured,
A stanza replayed.
A Rosetta Scroll for memory.
"Once upon a time, when people still believed in magic, they gave their art to the ages. Later ages study those arts to see back in time as if by magic."
- Translation of Phoenician script
from Rosetta Scroll, oil painting
Certain arts endure.
Left; behind or because?
A record, a story, a message?
So then ancient yesterdays are interpreted for remembrance.
Our way to "know" a people.
Our history or theirs?
By Heidi C. Hallett