Name: Aftermath
SKU: 243334
Price: 5999.00 ZAR
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Elmarie Robin

I am a farm girl and creative at heart. For as long as I can remember, art and creativity has been part of my life. I enjoy a variety of art mediums from textile design to painting, doing murals or giving life to worn-down furniture and expressing my creativity through gardening.

Through my art, I want to bring a message of hope. There is beauty and greatness behind every mark of darkness. “Beauty from ashes” personifies my life.

I am inspired by people, flowers from my garden, our beloved farm, and life’s journeys. Currently I am mostly working in oils or mixed media on canvas. I’ve had wonderful mentors through my life. Sonette Olls, Nic Oosthuizen, Dale Elliot and Willie Jacobs to name a few.

I live on my childhood Highveld farm, from where I am running an animal feed business and exploring my art and creativity. I recently started working under the artist name Ella.

I am currently working on a series of paintings that I call “Wonder”. In these paintings, I explore creative freedom, with inspirational thoughts, writings or songs. I combine this with things that I love – flowers, people and vibrant colour.

I believe that just like life, art is a journey. We grow, explore, and discover beauty as we dare to wonder.

R5,999.00

Artist: Elmarie Robin
Title: Aftermath
Medium: Oil and collage on paper and canvas.
Size: 80 x 80 cm

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SKU: 243334 Categories: 2021 Art Competition, Competition work, Elmarie Robin, Faces, Figures and Form, Mixed Media

Description

Artist: Elmarie Robin
Title: Aftermath
Medium: Oil and collage on paper and canvas.
Size: 80 x 80 cm

Description:
This artwork was inspired after visiting a family member in an old age home during the pandemic. We were allowed to see her through a window, and had to stand 2,5 meters away. She reached through the burglar bars, but we could not reach out to touch her hand. That image stuck in my mind and moved my heart.

This painting portrays the effect that the pandemic and lockdown situation has on individuals around the globe, especially elderly people in old age homes or care centers. For their own safety they are isolated from friends and family, but sadly this has a devastating effect on their emotional and mental health. They long for physical touch, a hug, someone holding their hand. How ironic that reaching out and loving them could also mean their death if they get infected with the virus?

The artwork consists of pieces of paper stuck on board, and some torn off the board again. This further emphasis the feeling of lives being torn apart by the pandemic. The pieces of paper are fragmented and fragile, similar to the emotions experienced during this aftermath.