ANDRZEJ PLUTA-SUN WILDS exhibition by andrzej pluta

ANDRZEJ PLUTA-SUN WILDS

Artist Statement. My inspiration to create fine art of flowers came from Georgia O'Keeffe. What is it flowers mean in the space they occupy? Why do they stop us up short and call us to a halt with their soundless last syllable? Is it their resolute sense of self, their undilute wholeness? Maybe instead, it’s their sense of imminence. Maybe it’s about colour–their blue: gentian, cobalt, peacock, lapis lazuli or sky; their red: vermilion, carmine, garnet, blood; their yellow: sun, honey, butter, lemon; their green: peridot, parakeet, water, acid, emerald, lime. They are first things. They are the beginning point, the springboard for metaphor, the objects to which other things are likened. Or try: dance and sway, harmony and equilibrium, surprise and splendour; try cool touch to fever, bulb and trumpet, spikes and velvet, surcease and thrust, pulse and throb. Think of nettles and roses, stamens, pistils and swords, pods and pulp, nectar and scent, poppy and yield, balm and beauty.