by Andrea Fedder | Jul 11, 2019
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‘Figging It’ ~ def: the art of ‘winging it’ when you’d really rather say ‘f*%@ it’ and quit.
We all have those days. Figging it gets us through those.
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Ps: Whose got some nice, juicy tips or motivation for me for keeping my energy levels up – I’d appreciate your wisdom in the comments more than a ‘double tap’ on this one. 🙏😌
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Inspiration image: artist’s own
by Andrea Fedder | May 1, 2019
Not for sale
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I started painting on tiny canvases purely because that’s all I could fit in my suitcase on travels back from the States many years ago. Because I’ve always marvelled at life’s tiny miracles (ladybugs🐞, helloo?!) my love for capturing nature’s vastness on tiny canvases deepened, and so did my fondness for painting larger than life moments to hold in the palm of your hand.
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But the irony is – what the world usually deems as ‘larger than life’ – and what the heart deems so, are very different. By today’s standards, it seems it’s often “the little things” that really are the ones that take up the most room in our hearts. This day at @babylonstoren with my wizard man talking to opuntias was one of those little big moments.
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He’s the maker of all my tiny stretched canvases and the man who somehow set me free and called me home simultaneously in the desert (yes, at the Burn) a wee year ago. His penchant for sacred geometry sometimes leads him to make even teenier tinier octagonal canvases like this one from offcuts.
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And this first one was destined for a little first-anniversary painting. 💚
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Get in touch if you have a special big little moment you’d like captured on an octagon canvas.
by Andrea Fedder | Apr 30, 2019
Rising and setting, daily, nightly, the sun waits for us to see…. only in the total giving away of ourselves will we truly shine our brightest.
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“Even the sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illuminated by it.” – Eberhard Arnold✨
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Holy cow – this quote only just really sunk in!
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Isn’t the sun marvellous? Rising and setting every day and night waiting for us to see…. that it can only ever be in the total giving away of ourselves that we can truly experience what it means to shine our brightest?
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by Andrea Fedder | Apr 28, 2019
Long before humans made large statuesque art, nature perfected it when she carved the tree aloe. If you’ve ever been into the karoo, you’ll have seen how she illuminates her creations. She is artist, architect and alchemist all in one.
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Long before humans made large statuesque art, nature perfected it. If you’ve ever been into the karoo, you’ll have seen how she illuminates her creations. She is artist, architect and alchemist all in one. 🙂 This is the tree aloe.
Inspired by the lovely capturings of @gavman18
by Andrea Fedder | Feb 28, 2019
When you see an agave flowering, it’s showing you its final act of preservation. They flower only once in their lives to procreate their species, using their last bit of energy before they die. Before they bloom, agaves are easily mistaken for aloes because the base plant shares a lot in structure and shape.
It is only once they flower, revealing all of their genetic code that they are unmistakable as agaves.
So, will you wait until the end to bloom? Or will you brave-up now and reveal your unmistakable self before time is up?
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Sale Price of Original: R1900
(artist retains all rights to print reproductions of this painting)
Inspiration image: artist’s own
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Agaves grow all over our beautiful county. Many people know them to be the source of tequila and a bulletproof plant that can withstand almost any climate. I’ve come to love them, mainly through the passion my man feels for them. And because of this new insight that I just learnt I now adore them even more. When you see an agave flowering, it is showing you it’s final act of preservation. They flower only once in their lives to procreate their species, using the last bit of energy left in them before they die.
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Here’s what struck me about that – before they bloom, they are easily mistaken for aloes because the base plant shares a lot in structure and shape. But it is only once they flower, revealing all of their genetic code that they are unmistakable as agaves.
So, will you wait till your energy is all but used up before you bloom fully or will you show the world your truest nature now while you feel it in you?
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PS: this painting is not rectangular because we ran out of canvases. I’m cooking up a little something new 🤗. PPS: I just wanted to post here to show anyone reading this that I’m not just all talk about this ‘blooming’ stuff – I just signed up for #bschool2019. And no I’m not a trust fund baby or highly successful artist…yet. So f***ing excited I could burst! 💖
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