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Bloodroot brings a message of releasing fears and expanding self -worth, especially for those of us who have belief that we are hard to love. Most often, our childhood traumas instilled this in us, causing us to be unable to open fully, or to love fully. Bloodroot gets to the root of this and soothes the scars, releases the illusions, and awakens pure love within us. If you dream of bloodroot, there is a message of abundant love coming your way - or perhaps is it a sign of self-love awakening from within.
Plant Witchery: Discover the Sacred Language, Wisdom, and Magic of 200 Plants, Juliet Diaz
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Photography by ZAC and ZAC
James Owens
Fiorenzo, 2021
Oil and acrylic on canvas
150 x 130 cm
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Photography by ZAC and ZAC
Mary Herbert
Bloodstone, 2021
Soft pastel on paper
18.5 x 13.5 cm
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Thinking through the prism of the recorded properties of the plant, Bloodroot welcomes you into the dream-like realm of Mary Herbert’s luminous soft pastel drawings and James Owens’ imagined folk-like paintings to celebrate a time of re-emergence; exploring memories, past and present, blurring the boundaries between the personal and collective.
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Photography by ZAC and ZAC
James Owens
After 'The Hunt in the Forest' by Paolo Uccello, 2021
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 cm
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Photography by Brynley Davies
James Owens’ work depicts imagined folk-like scenes, largely inspired by his upbringing spent between the countryside and a Yorkshire fisherman’s village. His work gathers past, present and imagined scenes to form new narratives, blurring the boundaries between memory and contemplation. The works offer moments of liminality which draw from external visual references such as 1920’s and 30’s Disney animation. Nature and its mysteries also come to play, revealed through flowers which sway sinisterly and knowing eyes which seem to have it all sussed out. Meanwhile, curling blades of grass peer curiously across the canvas, weighed down by water droplets, drooping as though upset. Though inherently figurative, it isn’t hard to feel like nature has the upper hand in Owens’ works.
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I think the state of dreaming goes against a lot of how we are conditioned to see things – it is a non-linear activity, linking to feminine, cyclical, spiral conceptions of time rather than a completely forward and upward progression.
Mary Herbert
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Mary Herbert is a London-based artist. She gained her BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in 2010 where she developed a fascination with the materiality of the photographic image and its unreliability as a container of memory. In 2019 she completed her Postgraduate studies at the Royal Drawing School, where she reconnected with the physical and unconscious aspects of image making through drawing. Her current work is a series of small, dream-like pastel drawings formed of a composite of feelings, lived-sensation, unconscious processes and observation.
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Mary Herbert
By The Light of The Wound, 2021
Soft pastel on paper
32 x 25.5 cm
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Mary Herbert
Bloodroot, 2021
Soft pastel on paper
15.5 x 13 cm
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Mary Herbert
Like Milk Was The Flower, 2021
Soft pastel on paper
26.5 x 16 cm
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James Owens, Ode to Nick Drake, 2021, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 60 x 50 cmGoing to see the river man
Going to tell him all I can
About the plan
For lilac time.If he tells me all he knows
About the way his river flows
And all night shows
In summertime.Betty said she prayed today
For the sky to blow away
Or maybe stay
She wasn't sure.Nick Drake, River Man -
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