Valerie Hammond is the creator of these beautiful mixed media pieces. About her work, Maggie Wright says:
“Hammond’s delicate drawings stem from childhood memories of a beloved fairy-painting, an illustration of an old English nursery rhyme, “Death of Cock Robin.” While the poem, in which various birds prepare for the burial of a murdered friend, may have had larger political implications, Hammond links her drawings to personal themes of memory, youth and death, referencing, in particular, the loss of her mother. In the drawing, bats hover above flowers, birds mesh with butterflies. The natural world’s cyclical disintegration and re-growth suggests a kind of universal story-telling, the seasons providing beginning and end. Hammond’s glowing, red-orange ink is reminiscent of blood, the capillary-like stems and leaves reference the human body. Ethereal pencil lines counterbalance the red’s viscosity, evoking a place where the material and immaterial collide.”
Images © Valerie Hammond ↓
These are beautiful!
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I would love to see them in person 🙂
Elsa Mora recently posted..Valerie Hammond’s Art.
I have been working on a hand series due to recently breaking my dominant hand/wrist. These are just gorgeous- such inspiration! I just love the layers and stitching involved.
just gorgeous, Elsa. And full of heart
Somehow (and I was a little bit familiar with her work) I find her drawings beautiful, but also heartbreaking…. I wasn’t aware of her loss, but felt something intuitively… Thank you for sharing them today.