Doors

Collage obsession, The secret garden.

 

My first post of the year is  'The secret garden ' mixed media collage. Beginnings are often symbolised as doors, they also indicate transition, the closure of the old whilst moving into something new, so I wanted to use a previous watercolour from an earlier post as a starting point, I posted 'The Old Byre Door' back in September. I printed out a copy on my printer, stuck it onto canvas and began to alter the image, transforming the watercolour into collage, symbolising regeneration and the beginning of something new. As I began sticking paper down and creating leaves and flowers the doorway reminded me more and more of the doorway in a book called 'The secret garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett. It was a book that as a child I loved and read and reread over and over again.. The gardens ability to heal and regenerate being its main theme.The main character Mary found herself energised by the garden as the months moved from winter to spring. I haven't read the book for many years so it is unusual that the door to the secret garden began to emerge from the canvas. I like to think behind the door is an a beautiful secret garden, the gold light from within its walls radiating out through the cracks in the wooden frame. To enter.....easy just turn the key......

The old byre door

 A little addition to the Mary Lennox robin are these Little feathered friends from a shop window in york... can't recall the name of the shop but managed to squeeze through the Christmas shoppers to  take a photo, Love them :)

A very Happy New Year