The Jarrah Series - In Progress
Bright Eyes, Open Heart, 36" x 36"x 1.5" acrylic on canvas
Jarrah, Bejewelled, 12"x 12", acrylic on cradled birch panel
Jarrah, Dancer, 12"x 12", acrylic on cradled birch panel
Jarrah, Fragment, 12" x 12", acrylic, oil and collage on cradled birch panel
Jarrah, Made by Hands, 12" x 12", acrylic and oil on cradled birch panel
Jarrah, The Far Edge of the Sea, 12" x 12", acrylic and collage on cradled birch panel
Jarrah, Slip, 12" x 12", acrylic and oil on cradled birch panel
Jarrah, Rooted, 12" x 12", acrylic on cradled birch panel
Jarrah, Electric Dabke, 12" x 12", acrylic and oil on cradled birch panel
Jarrah, Elegance, 12" x 12", acrylic, oil stick, collage on cradled birch panel
Pink Necklace, 40" x 40", acrylic on canvas
Jarrah, By the Reeds, Lake Hula, 12" x 12", acrylic on cradled birch panel
The clay pot or "jarrah" in Arabic. An exploration that began with conversation with my father about my grandmother's preservation of the bounty of the land in south Lebanon. Each iteration not a memorial, but an assertion of life, of enduring existence, each telling a new story while honouring the stories of the past.