This series is an exploration of shapes within tree branches.
What if the branches reflected a single shape, a square, a four, a triangle and oval?
This investigation started while looking at Piet Mondrien’s early tree drawings. The lines of his trees all ran together but all had a repeated series of shapes. This glimpse led me to look at other artists and their ideas around trees, Gaudi’s work in iron, Tom Thompsons work with Algonquin Park evergreens and ended with the Group of Sevens look at trees as a framework for the sky. The trees were the foreground and yet the sky was painted last inside each window, inside the negative space created by tree branches.
Through my soft linoleum print series I added a mylar stencil to fill in the spaces between the branches for my own stained glass representations of the sky or of leaves .I moved into adding ribbon, trim, sequins and other pieces to create the peacock trees… with their frippery and finery.
No tree is the same and this holds true also with the trees in this series.
There are over 200 and still counting. Not all are posted here. There is an album on my facebook page with almost all of them.
All of these trees are available in frames or without.
Unframed they are $30, framed they are $55.
The trees now are in their full glory… almost naked of leaves but showing their true nature in their branches. Look at the sky through the trees.
Lauren Renzetti
November 2011
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