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Slave to the Rapture – by Kathryn Fenton. Expressionistic Floral Otherworldly Landscape in Oils. As an artist some paintings spark that extra joy in your heart and this is one of them, celebrating beauty, love, the poetry of nature. That euphoric feeling when they all come together and one bathes in its ethereal light.
It’s no secret the beautiful peony is one of Kathryn’s favourite blooms that feature in many of her works. She adores its sensuality, its buttery flesh-like petals that she likes to partner with the human figure as they are symbiotic to her.
In China and Japan they are considered the “King of Flowers” and harbour qualities of passion, honour, good fortune and prosperity. The surreal oversized nature of the flowers Kathryn represents that dominate the landscape, are to express mans insignificance against the grandeur of mother nature that we are totally reliant on .
Both the representational and abstract form of the flowers and landscape are to create movement – a constant state of flux, of rebirth and decay, and somewhere in amongst this world of our making we must pause to celebrate the beauty that surrounds us on the daily.