Acqua di Fiori Essenziale To Finish Soon

Acqua di Fiori Essenziale         60x48 mixed                           2010

(Essential Water Flower).  An incredibly sophisticated painting of mixed medias including copper, fibers, photo collage, sycamore leaves, wallpaper, Swarovski crystal, and Budapest currency. This painting of abstract botanical afloat and awash in pools and drops of light blue colors. Sycamore leaves launch up the left side of canvas, one floating above a soft plaid wall paper laced in copper, and another leaf shape of textured paper laced with black fiber. A Budapest currency, 200 Forint banknote resides mid-canvas. Orange and lavender botanical shapes seemingly floating above and below the two dimensional plane of canvas. Multiple lucid layers of multi-media and attachments give the entire canvas a three dimensional sensation. More fibers wander around the composition among bold strokes of thick paint; their placement creating gentle movement.

Harkrader

Addio Vento Floreale

Goodbye Vento Floreale! The beauty of your wind blown flowers
will be missed. Thanks to RedSky Gallery you have found a
home (AC). May the path of your wind blown fragrance
and the olfaction of the artist

cross again in some future garden of Mother Nature.

Palazzo Venezia, Rome, Italy, May 2007

Harkrader & Elle photographed at the Julian Schnabel exhibit at the Palazzo Venezia, Rome, Italy, May, 2007. The Harkrader's was residing at the time in the atelier of Annina di Oronzo in Rome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pigna_-_Palazzo_di_Venezia_1010172.JPG

Julian Schnabel, American artist and filmmaker, one of Harkrader's favorites.

http://www.123people.com/ext/frm?ti=person%20finder&search_term=julian%20schnabel&search_country=US&st=person%20finder&target_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D4sajnloTFvU&section=video&wrt_id=53

Harkrader later viewed Schnabel's film 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' at the lovely Grandin Theatre in Roanoke, Virginia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diving_Bell_and_the_Butterfly_%28film%29

Botanical to Finish Soon

Harkrader has been cultivating this botanical for sometime now. It will be finished soon. This sophisticated abstract floral is deep, in the sense that thick layers upon full lucid liquid layers live on a level of  Third Dimension lounging on a 2D canvas plane.