‘Kirsten, you can’t keep doing more paintings, you must sell! You are running out of space! You have too many paintings and too much stuff too!’ ‘Really!?’ Am I doing harm to anyone painting whilst holding a vision of planting a forest before I die, or that I find objects d’art, small treasures found along…
Tag: Equestrian Art
Keeping on Keeping On!
I am not sure how this happened. But take a look at the stages of the painting before it became this painting, which I am calling The Intelligence of Trees. I just kept on keeping on instead of stopping! I must have liked this at some point as I stuck a copyright thing on the…
It’s All White Now!
I wanted to make a white painting inspired by the fact that I was enjoying the lightness and brightness of my freshly painted walls in progress, so whilst redecorating I went back to this painting with big brushes in hand and experimented with how white is white and still has a composition and subject. My…
Looking for Light
Over the last couple of days I’ve been doing more work on these two paintings, both work in progress. In both paintings I’m attempting to create interesting light to find depth and space. Moon Shadows – I want to paint one wing much bigger on the horse on the right with it coming forward in…
The Importance of Being Wobbly
I don’t agree with arguing for your limitations! People do it all the time and it seems daft. Why not explore what your perceived limitations are telling you and let yourself wobble for a bit instead? You will recalibrate. Wobbling is important! Wobbling is part of being balanced. Balance is movement at its highest potential….
Three is a Magic Number
Pythagoras believed that three was the number of good fortune, a magic number. I’m no mathematician but it’s always been my favourite number. It is a holy number, the trinity Past, present, future child, woman, crone birth, life, death beginning, middle, end… Why do children have favourite numbers? Today is 33 of a 96 day…
Intentions – A bit of a stretch!
Artwork – Floating Above, Acrylic and Gold on Panel, 30 x 30cm I wrote a blog a few days ago called ‘The Joy of Not Setting Intentions.’ It definitely helped me have more fun with everything, so returning to the word intention this morning curious about its etymology. Intention comes from the Latin intendere meaning…
Advent Calendar – 14th December – Tree Lovers
For years I blamed a persistent cough on fumes from painting in oils. This summer a friend alerted me to the dangers of mouth breathing. He was resorting to taping his mouth at night to stop his habit. My cough is all but gone as I remind myself to shut my mouth as I walk…
To Earth We Return
To Earth We Return by Kirsten Harris Why do humans find it so hard to accept that none of us are getting out of here alive? Me included! Life is short! My dad told me that all the avenues of beech trees in Britain were planted after the first world war to commemorate the dead….
How to mess up your back and create pain whilst thoroughly enjoying yourself painting!
1 – Decide whilst an arctic storm is blowing that it’s a really good idea to go into your unheated studio and work on some large oil paintings that you thought were finished and had framed but have now decided to change. 2 – Repeat this behaviour pretty much daily for three weeks whilst three…
The Journey
A horse stands on a telegraph pole, other horses bravely move forward, balancing on a wire. The drawing is called The Journey. Sometimes we get stuck. It feels as though life is moving on without us. Our emotions, fear, circumstances or past experiences leave us in a place of hesitation or doubt. It may seem as…
Feel
I am going to start writing a few blogs about the meaning behind my drawings. Hopefully, if you like the drawings, you will be able to find your own meaning too. My drawings more and more reflect my interest in horses, symbolism, teaching the Alexander Technique, positive thinking, tree planting and the environment and more….
The Happiness of Grass
The Happiness of Grass by Kirsten Harris I have been thinking a lot about grass! As you do! Under a powerful microscope grass looks like it is smiling. Grass is amazing stuff. Grass is happy and it sure has tenacity. No matter how trampled and muddy, parched and burnt or just plain sad and worn…
In Our Hands
(I shared this originally as a facebook post on my art page Kirsten Harris Art. I wanted to write something to go with the drawing and to write from my heart about horses. I thought I should post as a blog here. I hope you enjoy it. ) ‘In Our Hands’ by Kirsten Harris 5…
Wishing on Dandelion Clocks
Wishing with a Horse by Kirsten Harris ‘If Wishes Were Horses beggars would ride!’ I was the little girl who begged to ride. I mucked out all weekend at the local stables for a chance to sit on a horse and that might just be bringing the horses up from the field. I…
Spring Greens
‘Galloping Free’ Oil on Canvas Spring! This past 2 weeks in Scotland for me has been all about green – suddenly the trees have burst into life, fabulous shades of green – bright, fresh, acid, shining, shimmering, vibrant, new green. Amazing, wonderful, startling, inspiring … I was commissioned to paint green and blue elephants…
What’s That
Flight
Flight Oil on Canvas 80 x 100 cms
Coming Through
Oil on Canvas 80 x 100 cm