This work was created while listening to baroque composer, Antonio Vivaldi’s Spring, one part of the violin concertos called The Four Seasons. The image is my interpretation of his concerto, which represents the mood of the season. I considered how his music developed in relation to the theme of spring. Plus it includes my own perceptions and visualizations concerning seasonal patterns; it needed to mention winter.

Such an approach to creating art is very spontaneous and intuitive. Often there’s an idea ahead of time for the direction of the drawing, but I also allow for immediate inspiration. I’m responsive to what is going on in the music and at the same time sensitive to how the image is developing.
Listening to this work I visualized a somber, quiet scene, snow on the ground, hiding something. The snow begins to melt; green growth pops up here and there carried on the violin strings.

Vivaldi-Spring is about multiple layers of meaning, which is also how the drawing was built up originally, with levels of textures created by several mediums. It echoes the idea of a hidden world, of tightly wound tensions and forces covered with a cold, still layer of winter snow. Slumbering unknowns, which emerge as spring arrives and the whiteness melts. At first the growth is tentative, barely visible, then it becomes full-blown activity, the green power of new life.

Vivaldi-Spring -limited edition of 500 on paper
* 17 1/2" x  23 1/5"
$185.00

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* sized to allow the choice to mat as a print with a white paper border showing around the image