Exploring in Abstract is a way to express the journey. Not knowing where the paint will take me is an exciting discovery.
WATER IS LIFE
original acrylic mixed media 24 x 30 painting
Painting getting ready for exhibit
Contact artist at bohnlaura1@gmail.com
Blood Moon and a Missed Eclipse
20 x 24 acrylic on canvas
Etsy Shop
20 X 24 acrylic painting on canvas
The emergence of a shape that reminded me of the recent full moon I missed was a pleasant surprise. I was able to revisit the theme as it occurred spontaneously from active imagination.
After images start to arise through paint exploration, playing with them allows the artist to learn what the painting is trying to say.
$675. available through Paypal through artist. bohnlaura1@gmail.com or Etsy
OLD SCHOOL DREAMS
This painting is a daydream of my teenage visions of waves and beach shacks combined with the modern vision of climate change and floods all mixed up into a dreamlike vision.
36 x 48 acrylic on canvas
$ Sold
Enter the Dragonfly
18 x 24 acrylic original. The symbol of the dragonfly has been so relevant to me in grad school. As I learned to navigate new directions, insights and learning.
FLIGHT OF THE DRAGONFLY
Flight of the Dragonfly is an evolutionary work that started with layers of abstract painting. After a few layers of painting, I looked for a line or suggestion of an image to use as symbols or metaphors. Part of an abstract line looked like a dragonfly as did the motion of the brushstrokes.
After further investigation into the flight of dragonflies, I learned that dragonflies have the unique capability to hover and change direction at any moment: due to their four wings. To me the metaphor for the dragonfly is the ability to be flexible in the moment when the direction changes and I have to adapt to that moment. I find that as a constant challenge in my life and work and at times it is both exhilarating and frustrating.
This work measures 24x24 and is not for sale as it is part of a collection for a show in 2015 at UCF Healing Art Exhibit.
I have read (but not sure of the source) that in Native American culture, the dragonfly symbolizes the stripping back of negativity that holds us back, helping us achieve our dreams. Dragonflies are the keepers of the dreams, the energy within the energy within that sees are true potential.
After further investigation into the flight of dragonflies, I learned that dragonflies have the unique capability to hover and change direction at any moment: due to their four wings. To me the metaphor for the dragonfly is the ability to be flexible in the moment when the direction changes and I have to adapt to that moment. I find that as a constant challenge in my life and work and at times it is both exhilarating and frustrating.
This work measures 24x24 and is not for sale as it is part of a collection for a show in 2015 at UCF Healing Art Exhibit.
I have read (but not sure of the source) that in Native American culture, the dragonfly symbolizes the stripping back of negativity that holds us back, helping us achieve our dreams. Dragonflies are the keepers of the dreams, the energy within the energy within that sees are true potential.
Musical Space
11 x 14 acrylic and paper mixed media painting for a body of work I am building for a show.
FISH KISS OR KANDINSKY'S PORCH DANCE
I have been fascinated with the artist Kandinsky for a long time and his love for painting movement to music and sound. His attempt to transcend his art into a spiritual process is also well documented as he saw art to have the potential to become a spiritual path.
24 x 36 acrylic on canvas © Laura K. Bohn
This work is available through emailing the artist or at Artfinder
TRUST THE PROCESS
This conceptual painting is a reflection of studies in art therapy and intuitive painting.
Layers of paint brought about the spontaneous imagery evolving from abstract brush strokes.
It exhibiting at the University of Central Florida's Healing Art Exhibition until December 2015.
Not for Sale
NATURE TAKING OVER
This is a mixed media painting, paper, charcoal, tissue on wood. The third eye insight of humanity is visited symbolically to realize with all of the efforts to protect ourselves against the elements that the elements of nature will surely win but not to worry because we are part of those natural elements before, during and after our life times both in nature and in spirit we are part of our ecosystem.
This painting has been evolving over the last year and now I am finally happy with it. The prayer hands used for meditation, prayer and yoga in juxtaposition with the natural form of the nude is a tribute to the authentic experience underneath it all. Day dreams brought on by studying Carl Jung's active imagination have come into play as I discover more about the inner workings of the unconscious and try to bring it forth to consciousness.
For inquiries contact artist at bohnlaura1@gmail.com
THE WATER DANCE
30 x 40 original acrylic painting.
Its hot and muggy in Florida in the summer but the colors of the ocean and the springs make it not only tolerable but a delightful relief and incredibly beautiful place to swim. The moving water has a rhythm all of its own as if music is constantly flowing and playing with the tides.
This painting can be hung four different ways for enjoyment.
EMERGING DAYDREAM EVOLUTION
This work is evolving from a textured beginning of dragging layers of paint into shapes, curves and textures to the point of abstraction. In the abstraction pieces of images started to appear. First a woman in white a lotus position pointing in a direction. This was followed by seeing an image of the dreamer of the landscape and putting that self reflective viewer into the landscape as part of it and yet as observer apart from it.
WALKING WITH YOURSELF
This is an oil painting influenced by a painting group I visited up in Palm Coast with a fellow painter. It is an experiment in emerging shapes and textures, complimented in color separating the day from the night in the split of the symbolic figure not readily apparent in the scene. The figure is experiencing both day and night as well as light and shadows only seperated by the force of energy making its way through.
SUNSET PROGRESSIONS
AFRICAN GODDESS
This work is a symbolic representation of the first woman president of Lyberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Her work as an activist for peace is inspiring and she is the grandmother of my son's school friend. She came to speak at my son's high school for her grandson's graduation and I had the honor to give her the painting to her daughter-in-law who gave it to her!
She has also won the Nobel Peace prize for her peace efforts.
WALKING WITH ROOTS
This work has several techniques layered into the surface. Walking with Roots explores the conflict of wanting to travel with freedom and having a home with family. Also, besides being in water, under a canopy of trees has always been a place where I am most comfortable. Trees feel like home.
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