HAZEL NICHOLLS - PAINTINGS
This painting is a representation of what humanity has done to the planet through pollution, greenhouse gases and plastic waste. The impact of these issues contributes to global warming, melting ice caps, flooding, extinction and endangerment of sea creatures and animals and forest fires. These are all depicted beneath the lion...the king of creation.... weeping over the planet and roaring for humanity to take action. Some see in this piece the lion representing humanity calling out for change. Others see Aslan from the Narnia stories by C.S Lewis. In these novels, the lion represents God the Creator.
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This painting is a view from one of my lockdown walks. I was inspired by David Hockney's paintings of roads and paths, particularly ones where you could not see where they led. This echoed our pandemic experience of not knowing what lies ahead.
I loved the contrasting colours of the different trees starting to blossom in Spring and the way the trees seemed to comfort and embrace us as we walked. We were fortunate enough to be able to head for the woods in lockdown with Ebony, so I had nature as well as dog therapy...not forgetting art therapy!