TREE DRAWINGS
"When a butterfly lands for 10 minutes on your drawing you know that you are totally at one with nature and she is blowing you kisses." Nahem Shoa
From my earliest memories trees, woods, forests and jungles have excited and haunted my imagination and to this day they hold even stronger resonance. As a small child I always wanted to be Tarzan, swinging throughout the trees and living in a tree house with a Chimpanzee called Cheetah. After watching the old black and white TV Series I would spend hours day dreaming my own adventures. Today living in London I would like to be lord of the urban Jungle!.
The more I look at trees I marvel at their ability to adapt, survive, with their different characteristics,twisted branches and roots, blossoming into strange wondrous shapes, (that are often anthropomorphic). looking closely at their gnarled trunks you see in their bark human/animal faces and bodies. They live so long and have been witness to so many human events that you truly feel they have a soul.
From my earliest memories trees, woods, forests and jungles have excited and haunted my imagination and to this day they hold even stronger resonance. As a small child I always wanted to be Tarzan, swinging throughout the trees and living in a tree house with a Chimpanzee called Cheetah. After watching the old black and white TV Series I would spend hours day dreaming my own adventures. Today living in London I would like to be lord of the urban Jungle!.
The more I look at trees I marvel at their ability to adapt, survive, with their different characteristics,twisted branches and roots, blossoming into strange wondrous shapes, (that are often anthropomorphic). looking closely at their gnarled trunks you see in their bark human/animal faces and bodies. They live so long and have been witness to so many human events that you truly feel they have a soul.
A Butterfly lands on my drawing
"Shoa seems to be a artist who has a craving for the strange and the extreme, which only goes to make these drawing more disturbing,
beautiful and full of visionary character."
beautiful and full of visionary character."
Tangible to In-Tangible. New work by Nahem Shoa. Article by Isobel Johnstone Curator of the Arts Council Collection 1979 - 2004