The Relic showcase centres around rustic-styled artwork. It can include Idyllic and pastoral imagery but generally, it involves subject matter with an old-world charm.
Artist’s notes:
A young girl with a rifle sits in a field of tall, dry grass, looking back over her shoulder. Lying on the ground besides her is a fallen deer.
Her solemn gaze is framed by a bright, gold-leaf halo, giving her a sacred presence. In the distance, a figure on horseback moves across the scene.
Artist’s notes:
The flowers are past their vitality, yet they are not discarded. They sit in the glass vase with dignity, to finish becoming what time intends.
There is no sadness here, rather gentle acceptance. The feeling unfolds slowly. Decay is not an end, not a failure, but a natural state.
The window implies a world beyond the room, but the image refuses it. Instead, the interior becomes a container, like the vase, a space for inwardness, for us to hold our attention for a while.
Overall, it speaks about attention. That meaning is not made potent through vibrancy, but from presence. The flowers are present in their transiency, nourishing our attention to grow.
The appreciation of art is an effort to extend our sense of the world; to broaden what is meaningful and gain a fuller experience.
Creativity is a gentle breeze inside a fog. Watchful, the artist must inspire it into a gale.
