An Improvisatorium of Poetry & Art
PROLOGUE
The art of pen and ink is a captivating mystery. Across the ages, lines shape letters or along strokes and evocative curves of sketches and drawings conjuring stories. We are drawn into their world of compelling secrets and wonder. Poets and artists have always been tellers of mutual stories: stories of the heart, of loss, of yearning, of love, desire and madness. They share passions held by the mind and gather against their pages an endless fascination of our own history.
As artists, poets and painters strive beyond the confines and liberation of technique, to explore something deeper than mere renderings of the obvious. They do not look to render what is visible to the eye, but seek to make visible all that is authentic yet only visible to the soul. They take us on their explorations of this reality, be it in layers of meaning, symbolism, metaphor and rhyme, or rendered in pencil, charcoal, ink or brush strokes of acrylic, gauche or oils. Whatever the medium, with all that gives shape to its inseparable subject on planes and surfaces, speaking to an essence of our Being.
In both art and poetry, the lyricism of colour, timbre, light and line, offers readers and viewers a compositional interchange of visual enchantment, reflection, and a fascination of a manifold universe offered on a single plane of paper. Our wish ‘to see’ through their eyes becomes a journey of our own interior landscape and at its very best, is a soul and mind enriching exploration, which, in its rare frankness, in its sensitivity to what matters, binds us, with an indefatigable ardour to a long and enduring historical aesthetic legacy.
The Shawback Redemptions explores an interdisciplinary pictorial syntax rooted somewhere between pure intuition, drawing on the unconscious biography of the soul and highly attuned craftsmanship: Improvisation.
It is a collaborative creation, visually and written as an extemporaneous composition which seeks to explore the inner textual and emotive landscapes of ink and paint as both word and image in a freely associative marriage of mutually inspired artistry. There are no absolutes to the discoveries nor is this collaboration meant to devolve the individuality of each artist’s individual work, rather, it is a canvas seeking to share its deeper, more ample humanity.
Welcome to this unique interdisciplinary exploration
of image and text, emotion and metaphor through collaborative improvisation. Please browse at you leisure and invite your family and friends to the journey.
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Thank you for taking the time.
Jerry & Renée
