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“Many students and teachers commented that it was the most unique and enjoyable presentation of the year. The audience was very impressed with the professional quality and the knowledge you imparted about cultural symbols and mystical thinking as they relate to art.”
Eleanor Lumish, EF Lecture Coordinator, Marymount College
In my slide presentation “Memory, Myth, and Cultural Transformation,” I retrace the steps of my painting expeditions to sacred sites around the world. I share with the audience the influence of nature, prehistoric art and world religions on my work. In 1984, I began traveling to mystical sites around the planet. The intense spirituality of these places whether created by humans or by nature, shaped the development of my art. The result came as lustrous collages, symbolic paintings, and poetic mythologies.
I journeyed to the Galapagos Islands, where I sun-bathed with iguanas, and observed feathered mating rituals and rookeries. In the South Pacific and Australia I was awed by Uluru, or Ayers Rock, the world’s largest monolith. It looks like the heart of the earth and is sacred to Australian aborigines. In Asia I sought out temples and wildlife sanctuaries in India, Thailand, Bali and Japan. In Hawaii, I experienced a sense of the sacred as I lived and painted in the volcanic fog of Kilauea Volcano, daily pumping molten lava into the sea. In these flows of creation, I found the fusion of nature, spirituality, and art. In 1992, I packed my paints for Crete, site of the prehistoric Minoan Civilization. During my year there I participated in an archeological tour of Turkey too. Eventually I came to understand that my art is about the transformation of pain into the celebration of life.
This slide show presentation of photographs of some of the earth’s most beautiful places and my art’s response to them has been well received at high schools, colleges, clubs and other organizations.
For information about fees and scheduling, please email my Studio Assistant, Milton, at: info@idrummond.com.
Bird Tracks in Sand
Sun
Shadows
Iguana
in the Galapagos
Australian
Fern
Ayers
Rock
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