Stories Behind Original Nature Artworks: A Newcastle Printmaker’s Blog
‘Returning to Spring’ - A Stunning Collection of Contemporary Landscape Artworks by Heather Moore
Walking through woodlands and parks can be such a meditative experience, especially when you do it free of technology. You can be on the outskirts of a city and still feel cocooned in nature only a metre or so into the trees. It becomes a multi-sensory experience between the ever changing colours in the wildlife and the skies, the textures of the rough bark and delicate flowers, the smells of blossoms and the sounds of the birds chirping and scurrying.
Spring feels like a time for renewal, growth and coming back to life after a dormant and dark winter. It’s the time when the colour returns to the world and reignites our energy. A little more sunshine makes all the difference to our mood and the new blooms punctuate it with added joy.
An Artist’s Love Affair with Spring
Spring is a time of renewal and rebirth. From the birth of new chicks to the appearance of blossom, there is new life popping up all around us. That renewal and influx of colour and noise can have the feeling of bringing us back to life after a grey winter of hibernation.
LM Montgomery said "That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs". No matter how grey a day gets, we always have that hope and promise of spring and that’s what I love to capture in my original artwork.
In this blog, I will take you through some of the springtime stories behind my work.
Creating ‘Birch Trees in Bluebell Woods’ - an artist’s process
New original, ‘Birch Trees in Bluebell Woods’ is a celebration of that moment when you take a walk and realise that spring has finally arrived. The bluebells have emerged and are stretching out to create a gorgeous carpet of powder blue and the light is streaming in through the trees, bouncing off the silver bark of the birch trees.
What a moment!
Inspired by the wonder of the time of year when the bulbs appear in carpets across woods and gardens are bringing much needed colour to what has felt like the grey of winter. With silver bark gleaming and greens bringing the lushness of the season, it really is a joy.
I want you to be able to sit back and let your eyes wander taking you back to spring whatever the time of year.