Today, I'd like to introduce and promote a charity project by my extraordinary colleague and Living Master ARINA.
I met her 2 years ago, when I arranged an exhibition with 70 professional female artists from around the world to raise awareness for the brilliant quality of art created by women in a field still too often dominated by men (like so many others).
ARINA is not only an exceptionally skilled artist with a mind blowing list of accomplishments and awards, she is also one of the most wonderful and caring people I ever met.
This summer she invited me to participate in a charity project to support families in Russia and CIS countries with children and young adults suffering from cancer..
Quote from the website:
the charity aims to help children and young adults up to the age of 25 from Russia and CIS countries suffering from cancer. In many countries often only a small part of medical expenses for cancer and other life threatening illnesses is covered by the state. As a result, approximately two thirds of costs associated with treatments lie on patients and their families. This quite often means that families are struggling financially, and even slipping into poverty, as they simply cannot cover enormous sums of money needed to treat their kids. The UK-based the charity 'Gift of Life' literally gives hope to sick children and their parents, who cannot afford lifesaving treatments...
As one of the participating artists, I created the painting
"Gold fish", 20x30cm, acrylics and oil on wood, 2017
Its a painting in acrylics and oil.
I already explained some of the process here .
In the next picture you can see, that it has some "dimension" to it and the edge is done with metal leaf.
For me the fish stands for faith and healing. I gave it the golden touch, to include the Chinese interpretation of abundance. I added the mechanical elements, as they are typical of my work, but also to have it represent toys for the happiness of our children.
I worked on a large artwork on Tarot cards for over 10 years, so I still associate numbers of corresponding cards with a certain meaning. The 22 stars represent all the children to be taken care of with this project. 22 is a complete set of the major arkana, the trump cards of a Tarot deck. The number also stands for "0 - the Fool", a fresh young soul entering our world, a child.
Together with the fish, we have 23 "characters", 2+3=5, the divine blessing.
Together with my logo, we have 24 "items", 2+4=6, Love and the big heart
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I'd like to ask all of you, to spread the word about the project, as described on the website and on facebook. If any of you knows someone, who is in a position to bid for any of the artworks, please forward the info.
100% of the proceeds from art works sale will go towards medical expenses for children suffering from cancer and other life threatening conditions and will benefit children with cancer in Russian hospitals
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