This Spring I am having a lot of fun playing with a new color palette inspired by the colors that I observe in my garden. This is a new season of life for me where I am spending a lot of time at home, gardening, painting, mothering, restoring, re-generating, praying, meditating, studying Christianity and observing nature.
Being able to spend a lot of my days now focusing on experiential color therapy and painting, is another dream come true for me.
The yellow used in this series refers to the gorgeous sunny faces of the Daffodils that have now sprung up everywhere with the coming of Spring. Also represented in this series are the kumara and riwai (potatoes) that are growing in our garden, mounded with earth around them to keep them warm - a symbol of sustenance, survival, and nourishment for the family, and a gift from God.
The whitebait that have started running in the river here in Ōtaki are also represented in this series, and I am looking forward to cooking and eating the ones in my freezer given to me by a lovely client!
These paintings are colored songs of praise and worship for our life-giving God and His gifts given to us through the physical natural world, whenua (earth), maara (gardens), flowers, trees, plants and natural kai.
The abundance of nature is revered in the SPRING COLLECTION, and the colors of the gorgeous wildflowers springing up at this time of year also - I love observing the different wildflowers and their colors in our garden.
Spring is a time of re-generation. fecundity, new life, birth, new beginnings, and fertility and these themes are symbolized throughout this new series of works.
The earth literally becomes ‘born again’ during the Spring season, and having recently been baptized into Gods Kingdom at Rangiātea Church here in Ōtaki, I now have a deeper understanding of what it means to be ‘born again’, and natures demonstration of this during the Spring season is truly a sight to behold, and to be a part of, as a human engaging with nature.
Email taryn.teuira@gmail.com to stay posted about new works becoming available soon from the SPRING 2020 COLLECTION.
Working outside in the sun on the new SPRING COLLECTION.
‘OH COME, LET US ADORE HIM’ original painting. Acrylic, ink, gloss on stretched canvas. Signed and dated on the back. AVAILABLE by emailing taryn.teuira@gmail.com.
‘POIPOIA TE KAAKANO KIA PUAWAI’ original painting. 20cm by 25cm. Acrylic, ink, gloss on stretched canvas. Signed and dated on the back. AVAILABLE by emailing taryn.teuira@gmail.com.
‘ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE WITH GOD’ from Mark 10:27. Original painting, acrylic, ink, glitter, gloss on stretched canvas. 50cm by 60cm. Signed and dated on the back. AVAILABLE by emailing taryn.teuira@gmail.com.
‘BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS, FOR THEY WILL BE CALLED THE CHILDREN OF GOD’ from Matthew 5:9. Original painting. Acrylic, ink, gloss on stretched canvas, signed and dated on the back. AVAILABLE by emailing taryn.teuira@gmail.com.
‘THE FECUNDITY OF SPRING’ original painting, acrylic, ink, gloss on stretched canvas. Signed and dated on the back. SOLD.
‘FOR THE GIFT OF JAH IS LIFE’ new original painting from the SPRING COLLECTION. NOW SOLD.
I love to look at my garden when I paint.
‘OLD THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY, BEHOLD ALL THINGS ARE BECOME NEW’ from 2 Corinthians 5:17. Original painting, acrylic, ink, gloss on stretched canvas. Signed and dated on the back. SOLD.
‘LET THE HEAVENS REJOICE AND THE EARTH BE GLAD’ from Psalm 96:11. Acrylic, ink, gloss on stretched canvas, signed and dated on the back. SOLD.
‘WE BURIED OUR UTU AND EMBRACED FORGIVENESS’ original painting. Acrylic, ink, gloss on stretched canvas. Signed and dated on the back. SOLD.
‘GOD IS WITHIN HER, SHE WILL NOT FAIL’ from Psalm 46:5. Original painting. Acrylic, ink, gloss on stretched canvas, signed and dated on the back. SOLD.
‘PEACE I LEAVE WITH YOU, MY PEACE I GIVE UNTO YOU’ from John 14:27. Original painting. Acrylic, ink, gloss on stretched canvas. Signed and dated on the back. SOLD.
Crushing on this color palette.
‘BE IMITATORS OF GOD, AS LOVED CHILDREN’ original painting. Acrylic, ink, gloss on stretched canvas, signed and dated on the back. SOLD.
‘IN ALL THINGS, REJOICE’ original painting. Acrylic, ink, gloss on stretched canvas, signed and dated on thew back. SOLD.
‘I WILL WALK BY FAITH, EVEN WHEN I CANNOT SEE’ original painting. Acrylic, ink. gloss on stretched canvas. Signed and dated on the back. SOLD.
‘KUA WAATEA TE HINENGARO, ME TE KAHA O TE RERE O TE WAIRUA, KA TAEA E KOE NGAA MEA KATOA’ original painting. Acrylic, ink, gloss on stretched canvas. Signed and dated on the back. SOLD.
Also, big thanks to everyone that has recently visited me at my private Ōtaki (Wellington) based studio, to receive taa moko.
