Presenting: Lady in Waiting

Title: Lady in Waiting by Teena Marie Fancey

Medium: Acrylic on cradled board, aluminum can bottom, spoon bowl, cutlery piece all found while beachcombing, photographic transfer.
Size: 16" X 20"
Accompanying Poem;

Lady In Waiting
by Teena Marie Fancey
Adrift without mooring in a pea green boat

Heart full to bursting, my body ready to feast
Ravenous, with runcible spoon in hand
I dream by the light of the moon

The taste of honey already on my tongue
Your ocean skin and waves of hair
I’m caught in a counter current, your pull
I dream by the light of the moon

Lady in Waiting & her verse will be shown in the Exhibit: " When She Was Bad" in summer 2011.

Lady in Waiting Progress...

So, our Lady waits still.  Now I feel I really know where this painting is going and I've chosen the found objects that will accompany her while she waits: some metal scraps that I found while beachcombing. I will beef up the contrast, and the moonlit sky and water, and work on the viewer's perspective just a tad to pull the composition together. I figure I'll have a finished product to show by tomorrow's end. I just love show and tell!

Lady in Waiting

The waiting is the hardest part, our lovely lady, here to the right, seems resigned to the fact that she must wait. And so she does. But what is she waiting for? Perhaps a poem could shed some light?

Lady in Waiting by Teena Marie Fancey

Adrift without mooring in a pea green boat
Heart full to bursting, body ready to feast
Ravenous, with runcible spoon in hand
I dream by the light of the moon

The taste of honey already on my tongue
Your ocean skin and waves of hair
I’m caught in a counter current, your pull
I dream by the light of the moon

The Owl and the Pussycat is a favourite childhood

poem of mine. I often use the image of the pea green boat

to depict the idea of romance in my work...

The promise of romance is a funny and fleeting thing and we can't get enough of it.

It causes us to do many things like walk on air, giggle, shave our legs and sometimes makes us forget who we are and we'll risk everything for just a little.

Stay tuned...more later this week.

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The Fireworks burst and I'm kicking up dust

Here we have the finished product. My first finished piece for When She Was Bad (opens 2011).

Title: Dirt and Devil-May-Care

Medium: acrylic on cradled board, photographic transfer, toy gun cap-ring.

Size: 16" X 20"

Inspired by the original photo, a cap-ring and a poem of the same name.

Dirt and Devil-May-Care

by Teena Marie Fancey

When the sparks fly I am so good at being bad
The fireworks burst and I’m kicking up dust

Dirt and Devil-may-care and be damned

Strike the match and I am already in flames
The hiss of ignition and I’m burning alive
Turning sweat into steam and I swear to God

We had ‘Once upon a time’ then we jumped to the middle
Skimming, skipping, looking for the good parts
Caught up in pulp, we see truths in the fiction

What kind of salvation is on your tongue?
You lay a hand as you pass and I want to be saved
Feed me your body, blood and a crust of bread

Words and winds and my fate is struck
The fireworks burst and I’m kicking up dust
Dirt and Devil-may-care and be damned

Dirt and Devil-May-Care

This is my all time favourite photograph in my vast collection of old photos. It magically captures the feeling of flying sparks between these two!

It also inspired me to write a poem which then inspired a new piece (stay tuned) for my upcoming 2011 show called,
"When She Was Bad" where I will be showing work as well as poetry accompanying some of the pieces. I find writing can solidify a vision for a painting, and the reverse can be true too.

I will share this poem as a taste of what When She Was Bad will have to 'say' and what the painting might look like. Will post the results soon as I've already begun to put brush to board and have a handfull of used toy gun cap rings...hmmm. Enjoy...

Dirt and Devil-May-Care

When the sparks fly I am so good at being bad
The fireworks burst and I’m kicking up dust
Dirt and Devil-may-care and be damned

Strike the match and I am already in flames
The hiss of ignition and I’m burning alive
Turning sweat into steam and I swear to God

We had ‘Once upon a time’ then we jumped to the middle
Skimming, skipping, looking for the good parts
Caught up in pulp, we see truths in the fiction

What kind of salvation is on your tongue?
You lay a hand as you pass and I want to be saved
Feed me your body, and blood and a crust of bread

Words and winds and my fate is struck
The fireworks burst and I’m kicking up dust
Dirt and Devil-may-care and be damned

tmf

Myth in the Mist

I came upon this picture/postcard in a collectables shop. Apparently, she was a silent film star of note, the back of the card was autographed. I decided she would be front and centre in a new painting for an upcoming group exhibit that will run in conjunction with the Celtic Colours International Festival. Myth in the Mist is an exhibit to celebrate the Otherworld of Faeries, at the Cape Breton Centre of Craft and Design.




Not long after I found this beauty, I picked up a 1950's comic of Shakespear's A Mid Summer Night's Dream. I decided then that this lovely lady would be Titania, the Faery Queen of Shakespeare's play and I would submit her for exhibit in
Myth in the Mist.




After working on Titania over several weeks, this was the final result. She is lulled to sleep by her ever present subjects, the faeries that reside in the woodlands and as she drifts off images of a hummingbird searching for nectar, fishes swimming in the silence of the deep water and the glow of the moonlight that attracts the Luna Moth from the darkness fill her mind.
She is on cradled board, (size: 11" X 14"), is done in acrylics and is titled:
Titania's Dream-"Sing me now to sleep"


Myth in the Mist opens Thursday, October 8th at 7PM at 322 Charlotte St. Sydney, Nova Scotia.
All are welcome!

Redux, Redux opens today!

It's finally here. Redux, Redux opens today at the Ross Creek Centre for the Arts in Canning, Nova Scotia. Technically, this is my first solo exhibit as well as my first solo exhibit on the mainland. I am very excited about showing my work to a new audience!

The Official Opening is this Sunday from 1-3pm and all are welcome! Afterwards Ross Creek Centre for the Arts will be presenting Two Planks and a Passion's Off the Grid theatre will have their season's opening performance of their production Rockbound which I am happy to say I will be attending!

Will be back at the old studio in Margaree Harbour working on my next project: When She Was Bad which will open in summer 2011...a long way off, maybe but trust me, when the time comes I'll wonder where the time went and hope I've got it all done!