The Dragonfly fascinating and beautiful…
Ξ July 28th, 2008 | → 2 Comments | ∇ Abstract Art |
I have a bit of a fascination with Dragonfly’s, the colours are very beautiful and they seem like a fluttering prehistory lesson!
‘Dragonfly glow‘ is inspired by the long distant relatives of the dragonfly’s we see today, it was painted at 12″ x 24″ per canvas with the entire piece without spaces measuring 24″ x 36″. Dragonfly Glow can now be purchased through Mazoo in the size above for £262.50, larger sizes also available at extra cost.
If totally abstract isn’t your cup of tea, i can be commissioned to paint whatever takes your fancy or perhaps ‘Dragonfly and the Lily’ is more to your taste? Prices starting from £127.50 for a 12″ x 24″ gallery edge style canvas, again, larger sizes also available at extra cost.
Dragonflys are prehistoric, they were fluttering around about 300 million years ago and they were once much much larger than the cute little fellows we see now, their wing spans were about two and a half feet.
I often see people wearing silver jewelery in the shape of dragonfly’s, so i know I’m not alone in this, but i would love a broach which looks totally like a dragonfly, so much so that it could fool people into thinking that one just landed on me (if anyone knows where i can get one please do tell).
When i was a tiny tot living in Birmingham i used to go for walks with my family in the Dingles, which as i remember it, was a small woodland with a pretty stream running through it, along the banks of the stream we used to see the beautiful flash of kingfishers darting by, but by far my favorite was of course the dragonflys, i remember it as a magical place beautiful and natural. I think they built houses there, hopefully some of the magical place i remember remains for the children who live in those houses.
All of those years ago I went to Billesley primary school and we did a performance dressed up as mini beasts, i can remember kids wearing sleeping bags being cocoons, i was so proud to be a Dragonfly, i remember reciting a poem about them, i just wish that i could remember the poem. Flutter flutter.
Here’s a photo of me at primary school, for a bit of fun you can guess which one is me, i blame my Mom for that nasty fringe! LOL
