THE WIZARD

This is an oil painting with a vibrant, captivating presence. It depicts a chameleon, rendered in bold, fiery shades of red and orange, with touches of pink highlighting its skin and the intricate patterns that run across its body. The chameleon is centered on the canvas, its body coiled in an elegant spiral that leads the viewer’s eye from the tip of its curling tail to its curiously tilted head. The creature’s eye, a bright gem-like orb, is a focal point that seems to gleam with life and intelligence.

The background is a stark contrast to the vivid subject, featuring a more subdued and cooler palette of blues, grays, and soft yellows, with patches of white adding a textural dimension. This cooler backdrop makes the warmth of the chameleon’s red hues stand out even more strikingly, emphasizing the animal’s unique form and the almost otherworldly texture of its skin.

The paint is applied with an impasto technique, giving the work a tactile quality that invites the viewer to imagine the sensation of the chameleon’s rough skin. The brushstrokes are energetic and seem almost spontaneous, adding to the dynamic quality of the piece.

The title “The Wizard” is fitting for this painting, as it captures the chameleon’s mystical and enigmatic nature, with its ability to change colors and blend into its surroundings, which has often been associated with magic and sorcery. The chameleon, a solitary and contemplative creature, could be seen as a guardian of ancient wisdom, a being that, while small, holds the secrets of adaptation and survival.

This painting could be a striking conversation piece, as it combines a lifelike representation with an abstract quality that encourages deeper reflection on the marvels of nature and the magic that lies in the everyday.

“In The Beginning”

The key concept of the project is to glorify Mother Nature who was the origin of all living creatures on Earth, and her personification is in painting number 2 from the collection, on the left side of the canvas. The divine feminine is in a slightly turned away stance, with her dark red hair flowing freely. Her long hair eventually formed into circles that surrounded her body.

Marianne was able to connect the idea of perfection to nature in a subtle way by using geometric shapes and mathematical principles: a spiral in the bottom-right corner next to the Goddess is a reference to Fibonacci’s Golden Spiral, also known as the divine proportion, which is the ideal ratio found in nature.

The artist refers to the Golden Ratio while using this idea as the core concept to represent the entire project.

According to her statement, all of the paintings in this collection were created in a spiral order and are connected to one another. A large circle is a subject and the beginning of the spiral in painting number 1 on the left of “Feminine Divine,” while the Goddess is a continuation of the spiral’s tail from the first panel.

From a technical point of view, this painting is made up of ten layers, the first of which is gesso to create an invisible layer of three-dimensional strokes. The final layer is finished with a digital process to render a brilliant and high solution output. In fact, this project conveys the subliminal concept of nature with a combination of ancient mythology, symbolized by a holy figure, and contemporary digital art and 3D depth effect, allowing viewers to contemplate its aesthetic values and have their experience enhanced through technology.