Earth Ball, Moon Ball; Dyed Fabric or Clouds; Print Cloth or Landscape; Depending on your Point Of View….

After the incredible Earth workshop last year with Ann Gollifer at Wits Museum, my mind is even more tuned to the circular, the whole picture, #earthballs #moonballs #moonshadows #landscapes #allthingsconnected , and where better to dream into that than in the moon rising in the sky above us…as a full moon glows overhead in Zimbabwe in March, the full blood moon, and with an eclipse shadow highlighting the “frosting on the moon…!!”

This earth ball, that I treasure from the Earth workshop, is an apt moon indeed, ethereally silver in its isolation….

and an ochre earth ball glows, becoming an orange moon in my separate sky…

Thinking #fullmoon #bloodmoon #harvestmoon #eclipse #mysky #zimbabwemoon #leafprints #Acrylicpainting #ecosystems #allthingsconnected

My two acrylic paintings inspired by the Earth, the Moon, hanging for sale in the make up studio of @kelli_mua …

Lin Barrie, Eclipse Harvest Moon I, acrylic on stretched canvas, 61 x 61 cm

…here’s a close up of the gold and copper printed leaves…

Lin Barrie, Eclipse Harvest Moon II, acrylic on stretched canvas, 61 x 61 cm

and how they might look on a gorgeous copper dulux wall…

and I can’t resist imagining these Moon paintings in more, different room settings…

Lin Barrie, Eclipse Harvest Moon II, acrylic on stretched canvas, each 61 x 61 cm version on a Dulux Wild Wonder wall

and, Lin Barrie, Eclipse Harvest Moon I and II, acrylic on stretched canvas, 61 x 61 cm on Dulux Brave Ground and Approaching Storm walls

My Earthballs from Tammy Hodgskiss at Origins Centre, Wits, are so inspiring.. apart from the finely ground earth that they contain for use in my future paintings, I see in them such satisfying moon shapes, as here in my composition entitled Earthball Full Moon Eclipse and Clouds using my treasured traditional Congo print fabric, my traditional Kuhlu hand dyed calico and earth balls… clouds embracing the double-eclipsed full moon against a landscape of strangely brooding, ochre tipped flowers….

Earth Ball to Moon Ball…. Fabric to Clouds… Fabric print to ominously beautiful African landscape….

I see my moon balls nestle in swirling fabric clouds in a dark African sky, set against a Congo landscape…

Earthball Fullmoon Eclipse and bark-dyed Clouds, nothing is black and white, set against the Congo fabric landscape…as my thoughts turn to that tragic land where neighbours fatally fight and struggle against neighbours… where life-giving rain falls on death-dealing guns….

My eclipse sketches on brown paper, to dream into as I plan more paintings, earth, drapes and all things connected….

May a full and ripe moon always be somewhere on our horizons and in our minds….. reminding us of the bigger picture, our small Humanity on this wonderful Earth and beneath the all-seeing Sky that we enjoy, #allthingsconnected under the same moon after all…