Mum's Night Out
Mum's Night Out
Pastel on Archival Paper
18 x 12
$2,500.00 USD
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THE PASTEL JOURNAL awarded this piece Honorable Mention Abstract in the FIFTH ANNUAL PASTEL 100 COMPETITION and published this piece in the April,2004 Issue #31.
An excerpt: "A collage of a beautiful dress, a stairway, a recent drawing of my daughter and some items I'd been saving inspired me to write a poem entitiled 'Mum's Night Out.' This painting is a version of the poem in which a toddler is put to bed by his mother, but is awoken just as she's on her way out. This was the first time I'd written down my thoughts before painting them--the end result was a pleasant surprise."
THE POEM: MUM'S NIGHT OUT
Enveloped in the weighty cloaks this dutiful child's asleep.
Endeared are we as lashes lie beside her cover-tucked cheeks.
Does mischief loom from toddler "dear" above the winding case?"
His nighties on, but kerchief's drawn, perhaps the scene awakes.
Her foot is perched, her finerery displayed, so we'll not see the chase.
Intuitiveness'ignored...mum's the word!
It's Mum's nite out!
Whatever may await.....
by Marcia Holmes
(Published, INSIDE NORTHSIDE MAGAZINE, Feb.-Mar. 2004, Vo. 19, No. 2)