Blinded by Emotion: Can Visual Art Express Such a Thing?

I have a thread of blindness running through the years of my life.

This morning I determined that my preoccupation with seeing (which results in painting, among other activities) but not understanding (a wee bit of what we now call autism, maybe?) results in a kind of sightlessness that has lived within my shadow side as long as I can remember.

Healthy Art Mindset, Literary Themes, Painting PortraitsThimgan HaydenSeptember 29, 2024Pre-Raphaelites

Beauty and Bocklin

Artists I Admire, Famous Artist Reviews, Literary Themes, Painting in Florence, Antique ArtThimgan HaydenMarch 28, 2023Arnold Bocklin, classical motifs, symbolism, Island of the Dead, Beauty in Art, Provence

All Through the Night: A Painting and Welsh Winter/Christmas Song

Soft the drowsy hours are creeping,

Hill and vale in slumber sleeping,

I my loving vigil keeping,

All through the night.

Literary ThemesThimgan HaydenDecember 14, 2022winter, Night Landscapes

For the Grapes' Sake... ("October" by Robert Frost)

Literary Themes, plein air paintingThimgan HaydenOctober 22, 2022Poetry

My Georgette Heyer Project

I started on this project because I’m a Heyer fan myself. It was my mom’s idea to do some paintings of Heyer, because she wanted to hang one as inspiration above the table where she (my mom) writes and figured other fans might as well. We both wanted a painting that felt vintage and was pleasing as art, yet recognizable as a portrait of Heyer.