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#symbolism

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Yennefer
Symbolism | Watercolor on paper, 2022🌒🌕🌘
Since 2015, I have used "Motte" (moth) as my artist name, inspired by the poetry they embody. Moonlight guides their direction, preventing them from flying upside down. This is why they circle around lamps, unable to stop - they mistake the artificial light for the moon, flying themselves into exhaustion.

#watercolor #moth #insects #herbs #lavender #aquarell #artist #mastoart #symbolism #witch #darkart #darkaesthetic #painting #watercolorpainting
#watercolorpainting
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Tamzin Cavendish

There are usually a lot more details in my work than might be apparent at first glance. I was asked a little while ago how many ink lines go into a piece like this…

Honestly?

I haven’t counted and I’m not sure I ever will 😅 Can you imagine how long that would take? And what if I lost count?

I’ll be going into more detail about this piece and the symbolism involved on my website soon

#drawing#artwork#illustration
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Coreyartus Imagery

As a theatre person, I think Symbolist-inspired art is in my blood. I want to explore more of it.

I'm reading "Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Art of the Four" (by Roger Billcliffe) right now, and I'm falling in love with Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh's work.

It straddles the decorative, practical, and symbolic worlds with gorgeous stylistic abstraction and narrative. All the work of The Four does, in some ways.

But especially Margaret and her sister Frances. I think they managed to take Art Nouveau and infuse it with deeper meanings beyond its now famous practical applications that we see from Mucha and such. They used its stylization for thematic messaging in ways that others didn't, I feel, influencing Klimt among others.

I've always been a fan of Pamela Zagarenski's work as well, and now I'm itching to try my hand at combining all these influences into my own expressions. Taking my work to something beyond pretty. "Pretty, and..." I think.

Wish me luck!

Book cover for Roger Billcliffe's "Charles Rennie Mackintosh adn the Art of the Four".
Image of painting of Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, "The Heart of the Rose".
Image of painting of Gustav Klmt's "The Beethoven Frieze".
Image of painting of Pamela Zagarenski's "Afternoon Tea with Fox".
#art#symbolism#artistlife
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Tamzin Cavendish

#introduction (not new to Mastodon)

Hello! I'm an artist and illustrator currently in Derbyshire, UK.

I'm interested in..well all sorts really, whatever grabs my attention. #History, #folklore, #art, #music (most genres), oddities and curio, #symbolism, #stories, #creativity, and the ephemeral scraps of half-thoughts...

A bundle of contradictions, can be bribed with tea, should never be left unattended in a book shop...ever!

Illustration of a kestrel on a rowan branch with a gold diamond outline behind.
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Tamzin Cavendish

This is a small section of an illustration I’m working on at the moment.

I’m taking this one slowly, I always tend to work slower when it starts to get colder, preferring to curl up under a blanket with a cuppa and my sketchbook!

And yes I know it’s a bit out of season, but it will all make sense when it’s finished 😉

A small section of an ink illustration showing tulips and cherry blossom and the edge of another object.
#artwork#art#nature
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