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"
(SOLD)
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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