Home Safe (#1 Window Series) by Noellene Foster

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ARTIST NOTES: A repurposed canvas that is profoundly better than the painting that was eh. It shows the vulnerability of a young person in the figure of the mouse but it is safe now from the crow hunting its prey - what an awful end it could have been. The crow is outside in the cold of the rain in winter's grey and the mouse is warm and safe inside with the sweet smelling flowers - a symbol of freshness and new life. This painting is symbolic of a young and abandoned life in ever danger of the outside world and its prey - a reflection of my brothers life and mine after our mother died and we were left alone in this pervasive and threatening world a 12 year old and 14 year old should not have been thrown into. BUT ...... we survived after being apart for decades we are now contacting each other each week and talking and trading stories of our survival. This painting was not hard to do - but I was surprised what it showed when I finished it. I am the mouse - safe and warm and the crow is symbolic of all that was evil in my life for so many years - now on the outside looking in and it cant hurt me anymore. The canvas is 380sgm and good quality. Painted over once with acrylics and acrylic pens. It is a window to the soul - of safety - keeping the wolf at bay. It would suit a room where contemplation of this safety is needed. I dont feel it is suitable for young children - the crow.

DIMENSIONS (Height - 90.00 cm X Width - 60.00 cm )
MEDIUM ON BASE Acrylic on Canvas
GENRE Abstract
REGISTERED NRN # 000-45037-0146-01
COPYRIGHT © Noellene Foster
PRIZES AND AWARDS No Awards

 

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Artist: Noellene Foster



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I reside in a retirement village at present and will be checking out the villages where more care can be put in place. 

I grew up in a very neighbour-like suburb in Wembley and started drawing birds for fellow school students at 6 years of age (now 65yrs ago) where hospital bed bound for some 6 years.

Some years later while moving forward in the Bachelor of Nursing at University, part of the course was made up of art based units. The lecturer uncovered a God-given talent for a distinctive abstract impressionistic style using mediums of acrylic and oil paints, acrylic paint pens, permenent markers, gauche paints, ceramics and sculpture, and water colours.

A passion for depicting all creatures of humanity, great and small from earth bound to the air and sea in the style of imagination fed by art therapy while many times a patient in mental health institutions - with nature in all its glory with vivid colours shining through.

After entering art competitions in recent years, the following have shown success including: Finalist in the Brisbane Rotary Art Competition in Brisbane 2023 where a person of a well-known Australian outback fashion label purchased one piece, finalist in the Rockingham Art Exhibition and selling two pieces, finalist and gaining an award of Honourable Mention in the City of Life Competition April 2023 by TEN MOIR (USA). A commission of Blue Wrens on Wood (acrylic paint, sand texture, and acrylic and marker pens) is now completed and awaiting dispatch to Queensland.

In closing, mental health and its foibles will not win by stopping imagination - only feed it!!!!!