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Terri Reid Studios
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| Maria de Acteal 24" x 30" oil on canvas |
| Sea Goddess at Rest 24"x 30" oil on canvas |
| Balloon Sellers 16" x 20" oil on canvas |
| Monks and Mandala 12" x 12" oil on canvas |
| Hornby Sandstone - Golden 24" x 30" oil on canvas |
| Hornby Sandstone 2 12" x 24" oil on canvas |
| Reflections Path 24" x 48" oil on canvas |
| Kelp Tangle 24" x 48" oil on canvas |
| Seaweed Nest 16x20 |
| Tequila 24x30 |
| "And So It All Unravels" 36x48, oil on canvaas, Not for Sale This painting represents many things for me and contains many issues of our day. It began when the news that 90% of local area bees had disappeared. I was working on this Kelp Series and looking for inspiration when I happened upon a particular tangle of kelp which was embedded in pebbles on a beach and had woven itself into the shape of a bee. As I began the painting it became obvious what it was trying to become. It became a womb suspended in space. Our reproduction systems held in suspense due to our genetic tampering. The DNA of plant and animal life merging, reaping infertile results. The bee’s DNA has been mixed with the kelp’s. Eggs and stone are no longer distinguishable and are falling away into the gray. The womb, or nest, could not hold them. Is the root of the kelp a bundle of pollen, or a placenta? Can you see the broken double helix of DNA spirals, or the unraveling of chromosomes? Air, sea, land, pollination, reproduction and higher levels of life are represented here, but are loosing what makes them distinct, unique and sacred. |
| "Cosmos" 48"x60", oil on canvas SOLD On a visit to the coliseum in Verona, Italy, I was fascinated to find that the stone slab seats were cut from petrified seabed. Everywhere you looked were ancient nautilus shells, sliced open and embedded in this deep golden stone. I couldn’t help but see the universe within one particularly decayed and water filled specimen. NASA’s recently received images from the Hubble Space Telescope and an accidental encounter with Arthur C. Clarke’s YouTube series on fractals, all combined to further awe and inspire me. Nautilus shells are the manifestation of an elegant and perfectly expanding symmetry. Fractals are patterns that expand in all directions to infinity and are said to be the “thumbprint of God”. The centre of my nautilus contains a representation of one of the first fractals to be discovered, called a Mandelbrot Set. This painting reflects my feelings on chaos and order, symmetry and randomness, man’s ability to explore vast reaches of space and to understand and formulate incredible equations, yet we are only insignificant observers in such creation. Fractals tell us that chaos itself is symmetry, if you can just see it from far enough away. |
| Seaweed Spirals 24x30" |
Tuscan Dusk 24x48"
| Tuscany Daybreak on the White Roads , 18x72" |
| Family Colours 24" x 30" oil on canvas |
| Santa Fe, Sunshine and an Old Clay Pot 24' x 24' oil on canvas |