Garden of Being
These drawings begin with an act of chance. Ink, water, and nature (leaves, flowers, seeds) are the materials used. The unpredictable start swiftly takes me away from the rational mind to a place of unexpected possibility.
Inspiration and subject matter continue to come from the natural world, my perspective is local: gardens and landscapes. Despite the “controlled nature” of these locals, they retain their wild, unpredictable, and sometimes dramatic character.
Themes that persist: Life’s interconnectedness, its cycles, its sacredness, and its impermanence.
Materials are many (watercolor, charcoal, ink, oil pastel, chalk pastel, graphite). Color and black and white mutually co-exist. Surprisingly, yellow, a color I normally avoid, is prominent.
Anne Scheid
2022