Artists Magazine - USA (2019-10)

(Antfer) #1

80 Artists Magazine October 2019


based on the concept of flight—both literal
and figurative. She credits her “sense of the
whimsical, the fantastic,” with fueling her
flight-filled imaginings. “ ‘Flight’ means being
ungrounded and unconstrained by the rules
of a walking world,” says Law. “Flight is some-
thing we often dream about, and with it comes
the elation at being unbound.”
Her fascination with this concept is clear in
her Insects - Immortal Ephemera series (see When
Flowers Dream I, II and III, pages 74–75, and
Mourning Cloak, above), which she describes

as “beauty in the minutia, immortality in
the ephemeral.” The series consists largely of
winged insects, such as pollinators, dragonflies
and moths. “Immortal Ephemera began with my
love of botanical art,” says Law. Upon painting
a plant or a flower, not as a smaller piece of a
larger whole but as the purpose of the piece
itself, the artist noticed aspects of plant life that
she’d previously missed. “There were elements
and textures I only saw when I was completely
consumed by the process of painting those
miniscule details,” she says. “It made me realize

ABOVE
Mourning Cloak
watercolor and
copper leaf on paper,
10x10

RIGHT
Fermata
watercolor, copper
leaf and gold leaf on
paper; 14x7
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