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Some Kind of Wonderful – by Sharon Rynehart

Fragile. Broken. Imperfect. Raw. Exposed. This moody landscape is all these things. Reminiscent of life? Society tells us we should aspire to their pre-conceived ideas; of ‘beauty’, ‘success’, and ‘strength’. You must be beautiful, successful, strong to be able to say “I’ve made it. Life’s good!” But what if you don’t? You can’t? Are we considered any ‘less’ of a person? When you’re so depressed, traumatised, suffering, hurting, we can barely see past an hour, or a day…let alone a long ‘successful’ bright, happy future.

But over time I’ve learnt to find the happy and wonder in small mundane moments. To find comfort and healing in the broken. In the messy and ugly, there’s still beauty and growth. There’s recovery. There’s hope. Sometimes we just have to look harder to find the wonderful.

This emotive landscape captures these sentiments. If you look at this painting long enough you’ll see ‘flaws’. You’ll see intentionally exposed places of raw linen. You’ll see one strong tree out in the open, exposed for all to see, but do you see the contradiction? Against the breeze of the beautiful pink sky it’s movement is the ‘wrong’ way. Do you see more flaws? They’re there if you look longer. Deeper. You’ll see a few lines ‘unfinished’, and you’ll also see the canvas itself is ever so slightly just a touch out of square! But why do we need to ‘look’ for flaws? Why not look for the wonderful? This painting is not perfect – nothing is – is it any less beautiful? Less wonderful? Because it’s ‘flawed’ is it considered ‘not good enough’? No. It’s expressive in light and shade. It has the most gorgeous harmony of colours. It has depth and contrast…and somehow although ‘flawed’, it portrays strength and wonder. It’s a reminder to recognise we are ALL flawed, but still wonderful in our own way. Although fragile, we can still be fierce. Although broken, we’re still beautiful. Although hurting, we can be hopeful.

Created with palette knives on transparent primed natural linen, and framed in solid oak (if you’d like it unframed send me a message), and satin varnished, I hope this emotive artwork is a constant reminder to be your own “some kind of wonderful”.

Thank you for looking…and reading!

NB: While every effort is made to capture the true colours and details of my artwork, every screen is different. Slight differences may be evident between a screen image and the true tone of my work which is more vivid and beautiful in reality.