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A Poem & A Painting: Madame de Paris

Oct 17 2016 · 0 comments · A Poem & A Painting, My Paintings ·0

After a whirlwind couple of weeks, I was so happy to have some quiet time in my studio this weekend! I did a bit of experimenting with an Impressionist/John Singer Sargent painting style. I enjoy pushing myself when it comes to my artwork and it’s even better when I am pleased with the results. I imagine the woman in this portrait to be a well-to-do Parisian in the late 19th century. I hope I’ve done her justice…

excerpt from Portrait of a Lady

Now that lilacs are in bloom

She has a bowl of lilacs in her room

And twists one in her fingers while she talks.

“Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know

What life is, you who hold it in your hands”;

(Slowly twisting the lilac stalks)

“You let it flow from you, you let it flow,

And youth is cruel, and has no remorse

And smiles at situations which it cannot see.”

I smile, of course,

And go on drinking tea.

“Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall

My buried life, and Paris in the Spring,

I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world

To be wonderful and youthful, after all.”

~T.S. Eliot {source}

Paris face portrait Impressionist Pamela Copeman painting

Madame de Paris, oil on board by Pamela Copeman

Have you visited the new Pamela Copeman Art website and Facebook page yet? There are still a few kinks to be ironed out, but I’d love for you to stop by (constructive feedback welcome as well)! I have several fun posts coming to Posh Palettes as well ~ I just need to find the time to write them 😉 .

xo,

Pamela