Skylark’s song, 2024

Inspired by Dina’s surrounding woodlands and Shelley’s poetry, this abstract mixed media painting is composed of acrylics, oil sticks, soft pastels and pencils on sheer fabric, paper and wood. “Shelley’s poem “To a Skylark" explores the tension t...

Inspired by Dina’s surrounding woodlands and Shelley’s poetry, this abstract mixed media painting is composed of acrylics, oil sticks, soft pastels and pencils on sheer fabric, paper and wood. “Shelley’s poem “To a Skylark" explores the tension that exists between the perfected 'unpremeditated art' and the attempts by the poet to understand and capture it. The bird and its song transcend the limits of earthly existence and the bird has an inner knowledge potentially available to humanity, who knows happiness only through sadness.”