Tropical Paradise

by Sarah Hornsby

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$400

Dimensions

17.000 x 14.000 inches

Title

Tropical Paradise

Artist

Sarah Hornsby

Medium

Painting - Acrylic On Canvas

Description

This was my first painting which I asked to learn the techniques of painting the Nicaraguan Primitive style. Though an imagined scene, the design is very similar to one I have seen as an embroidery of the epoch of the Spanish Conquest of the 1500's. Our first two years in Nicaragua we lived in Chinandega, near the Pacific coast, and found many people still living in thatched roof houses similar to that depicted. I chose the Primitive style because it demonstrates a love for the country, for nature, for the brilliance of colors under a Tropical sun. With Ernesto Cardenal, poet and priest, former Minister of Culture, originated the Primitivista style of painting in his community of Solentiname that was destroyed by the Somoza dictatorship in the early days of the Revolution. This style of painting still continues in Nicaragua.
I wrote this poem..............................................................................
PRAISES NAME ME

My heart sings like a bird
soaring in the sky, heard.
Every rainbow hue
touches my feathers blue.

What do these praises,
that fill up my senses,
through time and space pouring
through air, sea and sky adoring?

The praises name me!
They help me to see,
Your glorious plan,
my tiny part to understand.


�Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing
praises.� James 5:13

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June 21st, 2010

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