| Artist: | Linda Weil |
| Title: | Lepus |
| Medium: | Pencil |
| Base: | 300gsm Lana Hot Press paper |
| Year Completed: | 2023 |
| View at: | TacitArt: October 4 - 21. Level1/189 Johnstone Street, Collingwood |
| Price - Framed: | $1600 |
| Size - Framed: | 590 x 480mm |
| Weight - Framed: | 2kg |
About This Painting:
Tea stain base with watercolor washes. Color and graphite pencil overdrawing.
Inspiration
The Bestiary, or ‘Book of Beasts’, was among the most
popular illustrated texts of the European Middle Ages.
Religiously allegorical, the bestiary brought creatures both
real and fantastic to life, offering devotional inspiration as
well as entertainment.
Never intended as pure scientific texts, these richly
illustrated manuscripts offered a vision of wonder, variety
and hidden meanings found in nature. They were books
that explained the world of that time, place and influences.
The bestiary provided the basis for the study of natural
history and its legacy still impacts visual arts today.
This modern ‘Bestiary Mechanica’ draws on this rich
medieval tradition and blends it with elements of the
modern world of A.I. and cybernetics. The beasts are
creations of mechanical, organic and biomechanical body
parts offering a contemporary take on the established form.
Each beast was selected based my own personal affection
for the animal, from dragons to cats, each drawing holds
elements from my own time and place.
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