Opening Reception for BLOOMS, featuring D.Sire and James Thegerstrom

D.Sire – BLOOMS

Mixed-Media Paintings at Clamp Light Gallery

Opening Reception: Friday, June 9, 6pm – 9pm

“Exploring Blooms Created When The Stars Get Inside the Hearts”

featuring an installation by special guest artist James Thegerstrom

June 9 – July 8, 2023

Gallery Hours:

June 10, 3pm – 6pm

June 17, 3pm-6pm

June 24, 3pm – 6pm

Artist Statement:

D.Sire Blooms

D.Sire Blooms features mixed media paintings exploring the Union of two basic archetypal shapes, Heart and Star, and a third, the Blooms They Create and Form.

Last year, my sketchbooks start featuring Blooms of all sorts. I paint a couple too.  By the beginning of this year, Blooms take over my sketchbooks and a Heart connection emerges. I have a “Full-Circle” experience, an image of a seed or pod planted all those years ago in my Airport studio by the Flowers deep in my Heart, lying dormant all these years awaiting the conditions for a rebirth.  I love the “Spring” feeling creating this group of paintings gives me and hope others feel and experience the Joy of Spring in the paintings and generates a connection to one’s core.

In early days, I just moved into my first studio, in a hangar at the Santa Monica Airport.  A fresh start, “what do I do now?”  I find myself amidst an intense inner search for……a core and meditate and meditate.  And, meditating in the stark noisy hangar I have a very simple “matter of fact” realization–The Flower.  The Flower holds the knowledge I seek as a young Artist about, well everything….structure, geometry, color, beauty, balance, harmony. Wow, I think the Flower amounts to Nature’s Art as I see it.  So, over a two-year period I paint Flowers and Flowers and more Flowers.  I walk all over the city looking for Flowers as models to paint from.  I approach the paintings as portraits, the Flower my subject I interact with one on one intimately.  The Morning Glory that annually takes over the entire front of the bungalow I lived in at Venice Beach.  The Sunflowers at the local flower shops bring a smile to my face and remind me of Van Gogh’s that move me powerfully.  The tiny orange Honeysuckles I paint as giants.

My own imagery, visual vocabulary, and style forms.  I move on from painting flowers from life.   Yet, throughout, my images connect back to the Flower in a basic, archetypal way.  Something sprouting, growing, radiating from a point of origin.  A Flower’s very much a Star at Heart.