Finding Light in the Dark

Final Friday Sept 27th 5-8pm
During Mt. Harvest Festival Street Party

This new painting series by Tyrell Osborn illustrates a journey:  the upheaval immediately after things have fallen apart and the subsequent finding of small joys in grief, light in darkness, song in silence, beauty in loss, and visceral gratitude for these bright moments.  Discovering the freedom rather than the void that comes from release from bondage, a new life can be curated.  

Using elements of her natural surroundings that also happen to symbolize freedom, resilience, and new life, Tyrell created recurring images of datura flowers, willow trees and branches, loose ropes, evening primrose, swallows, and water throughout the series.  Also included are plants and flowers found around her cottage in Michigan where this series was painted.  Continuing the concept of light in the dark, three separate night-blooming flowers appear in the series, the cereus cactus flower being the only one not yet mentioned and also found in a different geographic location.  As life does not happen in a vacuum, symbols of freedom from a part of the world that desperately needs it right now appear in a couple of the works.

Color gradation, symmetry, design motifs, concentric circles, found objects, and flowing organic lines as homage to Art Nouveau are featured as artistic aspects throughout the paintings.