EVE REID ART GALLERY
"My paintings are about the organic unity of all life:and that for me is symbolized by the Goddess.
I have been painting the Goddess for twenty years. She is not an unapproachable deity who dwells in the rarified ethers of a superspiritual heaven. She is the earth I walk upon-the earth we all walk upon. She is the wheeling stars, the turning of the seasons, the mountains, rivers,lakes and plains. She is visible, tangible, reachable and homely : but in her depths the great mystery of the strangeness of the ordinary stirs and flexes, uncoiling into vision and dream.
Only by dreaming better dreams can we create a better world, a world in harmony with the greater rhythms of its parent universe ; a world not severed from heaven by the whim of some patriarchal god ; but joined to heaven by the red thread of the Goddess.
I admit there is a tension here. I feel it as I begin every painting. How to paint order and harmony in a world that jars every moral sensibility ; a world out of key and out of tune.
But these paintings are about faith ; the faith that it need not be so. They are aware of the horrors-of the oppression of women, of ethnic minorities and dissidents, the torture and exploitation of animals-yet they look another way.
There is another way. As a Christian I constantly recall Julian of Norwich's words " sin is behovely, but all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well. " And as one inspired by the ways of indigenous peoples I remember that the world is as you and I dream it.
These paintings are good dreams. From good dreams we wake refreshed. May they refresh your spirit and give you faith."
---Eve Reid,Scotland, 1998
My Paintings:--
Demeter Grail Garden Three Irish Queens Sophia The Bride Dana Threshold The Matrix Initiation Dionysus Circe's Island
Cookie & Fifi in the Italian Garden Grey Wolf and Friends Get the cats off the table The Circle of Life The Hidden Sun
The Secret Garden The Anunciation