I have been painting mermaids for many years, and started doing so by sketching one on the A4 page of my one per day Diary each time I shampoo my hair, celebrating the good water, self-care, and renewal experienced when refreshing myself to enter a new week confidently.
The mermaid is the Emerging Artist, half under water and waves, half above. She needs to always persevere and believe in herself, despite all challenges. She is all magical and full of wonder. Forever reinventing herself.
This particular one was painted on an up-cycled stretched canvas gifted from a fellow artist, Basia.
60 cm x 55 cm x 2 cm
created at Studio F2 Arthouse London GB in 2023
by Joyce jocelyne Saunders-diop AKA JOYCESART
MIXED MEDIA
* pencil (mural design pencil)
* graphite powder
* fixative
* gold glitter
* gold leaf flakes
* mother of pearl
* wood saw dust
* industrial emulsion paint
* household gloss paint
* lithium steel batteries
* printed material
* mini-photobooth print
* West African beach sand and polished sea shell fragments
* resin
* stretched canvas
* plastic packaging band
Shown together with the triptych "THE BADASS LADIES"
and a 50 mins film "JOYCESART Showreal*2
ON VIEW @bookery_gallerie http://www.bookerygallerie.com
Group Show: "The Phenomenal Female. Who Am I"
Marylebone - London -
Until the Finissage / End View Party on Sunday 11th June 2023
The mermaid is the Emerging Artist, half under water and waves, half above. She needs to always persevere and believe in herself, despite all challenges. She is all magical and full of wonder. Forever reinventing herself.
This particular one was painted on an up-cycled stretched canvas gifted from a fellow artist, Basia.
60 cm x 55 cm x 2 cm
created at Studio F2 Arthouse London GB in 2023
by Joyce jocelyne Saunders-diop AKA JOYCESART
MIXED MEDIA
* pencil (mural design pencil)
* graphite powder
* fixative
* gold glitter
* gold leaf flakes
* mother of pearl
* wood saw dust
* industrial emulsion paint
* household gloss paint
* lithium steel batteries
* printed material
* mini-photobooth print
* West African beach sand and polished sea shell fragments
* resin
* stretched canvas
* plastic packaging band
Shown together with the triptych "THE BADASS LADIES"
and a 50 mins film "JOYCESART Showreal*2
ON VIEW @bookery_gallerie http://www.bookerygallerie.com
Group Show: "The Phenomenal Female. Who Am I"
Marylebone - London -
Until the Finissage / End View Party on Sunday 11th June 2023