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Flowers and Crucifixes: Happy Earth Day and Easter

由 Kelly Borsheim

Dear Art Lover,

     Happy Easter to those who celebrate it.   I tend to be a Nature Girl and enjoy immersing myself in the new life and blooming colors happening in the gardens and woods all around me. How do you feel about this time of year?
     
     I want to share with you my newest completed paintings:

Classically painted tall narrow proportion still life painting of a pumpkin, acorns, and an old candlestick with a tall beeswax candle and radiating flame


Pumpkin and Acorns
100 x 40 cm (39.25 x 15.75 inches)
oil on linen, gallery-wrapped canvas
$3,000

Bright yellow bush of forsythia flowers on one side of a curby road that leads to a small stone village in Tuscany, Italy. Very colorful artwork by Kelly Borsheim

Forsythia di Enio, Castelvecchio  
78 x 63 cm (30.5 x 24.75 inches)
acrylic and pastels on paper
$1,800

Detail to show textures and colors:

Colorful detail of Italian Medieval villages in contemporary bright colors with high texture

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Christianity Art:


     Even though I create the content on my Web site, I am still surprised at the variety of topics found on my site.  I love using the search tool on every page to find a theme for art articles, for example.  For this newsletter and Easter, I searched for Crucifix.  I was looking for the art of my friend Vasily.  But I had forgotten the charcoal drawing that I made of a similar topic! 

So, here you go on this violent theme that seems to inspire so many:

ceramic tabletop sculpture of the artist fixed to the half-sphere (earth?) with nails in his hands, as Jesus Christ was martyred. Art by Vasily Fedorouk

Crucifix

12 x 12 x 12 inches
Ceramic tabletop sculpture
by Vasily Fedorouk
Ships from the Chicago area, USA
$1,600

https://borsheimarts.com/products/vasily-fedorouk-crucifix

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charcoal drawing of a man with outstretched arms, in front of an odd cross. He looks towards the heavens


Crucifix :  Mastercopy of Mariano Fortuny by Kelly Borsheim
69 x 50 cm (About 28 x 20 inches)
Charcoal drawing on Umbria (Italian) creme-colored paper
$1,800 unframed (framed upon request and extra cost)

Detail photograph of charcoal drawing of man's naked head and chest with his arms outstretched

Fortuny crucifix:
https://borsheimarts.com/products/fortuny-master-copy-male-nude-crucifixion

 

Loft apartment exhibits a charcoal drawing of a nude male figure emulates being affixed to a wooden crossed to a cross in this Crucificion scene


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In Borsheim Arts Studio!

     It seems this winter and now spring, there have been fewer sunny days without wind than normal.  I tend to paint inside during the rain and am slowly refining the shape of my abstract marble (Portuguese Rose) swan when the mornings are sunny.   You may see the sculpture on my table outside amongst the flowering wisteria of both purple and white, the red maple tree, and the last of the tulips this year.

white marble sculpture being carved on an outdoor table. Shown surrounded by color from a maple tree and hanging wisteria in purple and white

     And it seems that I have been getting called more often to do my volunteer "taxi" service with the Misericordia organization.  Since I am still healing from my spine surgery, I cannot be sure that if a patient / client falls, that I will be able to catch him and support him back onto a chair, a gurney, or into the ambulance.  Thus, my service mostly involves driving people who can walk to things such as doctor appointments, therapy, dialysis, or even just grocery shopping and other errands for those who no longer drive themselves places.

olive trees and fog roll into some Tuscan hills in Italy with a red umbrella entering the top portion of the photograph

     I usually walk up to the office in the village to pick up the car and the documents I need.  This image is one of the views I had on a drizzly day.  

     
     I love the rain and am fascinated how water droplets stick to some place, while hanging from others.  And recently, I photographed snails on tulips!  

two images of tulips (a white and a red) with small snails paying a visit
water droplets of many sizes rest upon the soft, fuzzy leaves of Lamb's Ears plant
Two beautiful irises in front of a red maple tree with dark blood red leaves, and purple and white wisteria flowers in the background.

     In this last image, you see part of my bedroom.  In the winters, I tend to work in that room, as well as in my kitchen, because those are the spaces with heating.  I currently have oil paintings in my room, whereas another room has acrylics and pastels, and the kitchen table has whatever project I can move onto the table to work on.  Ever changing!

artist's bedroom filled with mostly figure paintings of her own work or those she has collected.

     My bedroom holds most of my personal art collection, as well as some of my own artworks.  But the large painting you see at the top is one of a series from a show called InSPIRED by Marc Silva.  I knew him from life drawing in Austin, Texas, and have loved his work for several years before I bought this gorgeous, thoughtful painting about how we build churches in an attempt to reach into the heavens.  But the architecture with the buttresses also seem to cage us in.   I find the work intriguing (yin and yang), masterfully painted, and a bonus of the self-portrait of the artist.

 

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A few follow-up art points:

1)  The group exhibition at Oltraneo in Vinci, Tuscany, Italy closes soon.  If you happen to be in that area, let me know and I will be able to tell you more about the closing date.

2)  Last time, I asked for your contribution of subscribing to my YouTube channel of art-making videos.  I was trying to reach a minimum of 500 subscribers.  As of this writing, I have been blessed with a total of 506 subscribers!  THANK YOU SO MUCH!  Now, I hope to keep those and get more watch-minutes.  I try to post new videos as I work, but it is difficult to spend so much time editing what is shot.  Still, I want you to enjoy your time watching and not waste your time.

https://www.youtube.com/@BorsheimArts


I enjoy hearing from you and hope that you keep art in your life.  If nothing else, it will serve to remind you daily that human creativity can be a positive influence and inspire you to live your best life.

Be well, and Happy Earth Day, soon!  

With gratitude,
Kelly

artist self-portrait lying on bed, trying out the new legs to see if strong enough, hair spread out on bed above head


https://BorsheimArts.com

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