Dance of the sunbeams

Painting and story by Angela Kennedy

My name is Angela Kennedy and I am elderly but still have my interests and one of them is painting. I did not discover how lovely painting was until I was about 50 odd and since then I have enjoyed many hours of painting pictures.

What I love to do mostly, is put a poem to my painting. However, perhaps I should say put a painting to my poetry. I wrote the poems many years ago in my forties and a friend put them in a book for me, so they have survived and sometimes I find a poem in this book that I would love to express in a painting. So thats what I do now.

The painting with a poem I am submitting now is called `dance of the sunbeams`. Its a love poem and it was written in Spain and I can still recall the lovely twinkling lights on the sea, that have inspired my sunbeams. The poem is about love and that we have had a chance to experience this love. Maybe its a brief love...like the sunbeams represent. The original poem is a lot longer, but I could only fit so much in on the painting.

I am mainly self taught with painting and drawing, except for some life drawing locally and a weekly painting group I joined last year. I have always found painting so absorbing, it can be very relaxing. I used to make a lot of cards and this was usually done, when going on an outing with a friend, I would draw the scene on white card and after that it would be colored in, usually with soft pastils. I would give the finished card to the friend, who was pleased to have a picture of our day out. Friends have had stacks of them over the years and I`m even told | should make wallpaper from them. I did put them over a fire screen once and I thought it looked attractive. However, I have lots of cards to keep of days out, good memories to keep, but painting now and including my old poems is what I like to do.

I work mainly at home and sometimes watch videos on screen to help me. I am interested to watch the ones from the national gallery now and learn more. I like the paintings and work of Van Gough, and Matisse and Gogan. I used to come to the gallery years ago on a friday to talk and draw and we would be tutored about a picture in the gallery and sketch it. Then your work would be laid out for others to see and share.

I feel there is still so much to learn and would like to join the Watercolor Academy to improve my drawing and painting. Prospective is something I feel I need to learn more. I hope people will like my painting called `dance of the sunbeams` and that the poem is also joyous.

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