6 thoughts on “Leaf – Painting by Lehan Winifred Ramsay”
Big Msaid:
Lehan, thanks for the beautiful painting. It reminds me of raw earth, and insects, and colours of a landscape, and writing that may be millions of years old.
How very lovely. It feels very appropriate to me. I love it when a painting feels as if it is meant for ‘you’ or your circumstances. I have been granted a public housing property that had nothing on it other than a virulent bougainvillea.
I am sitting at the screen covered in leaf fragments and sand and dirt. The property is beginning to acquire some shape. The world outside is hot and yellow and orange in places as summer is in this part of Australia when sun hits its crumbled clay and sandstone stone and rubble. Twigs in the dust are skinny and black. They fly away out of the neighbour’s indigenous tree forest. They fall and droop over my fence. I have planted four of my own in the front yard now sculpted bare and raked around the new four plants that seem happy. I am happy i chose them.
Everything is different and everything is the same. Lehan, thank you for this lovely painting for our viewing,
I was going to make a comment about Lehan’s beautiful painting, but your comment is so beautifully written, as beautiful as the painting, yet different. Something else. You brought tears to my eyes.
Fantastic comment Shoe. Now that I am living at number 96 Coronation Street, Summer Bay, the views I get of where the river meets the sea is stunning. To the west I get delightful panoramas of mountains, sunsets and the most beauteous eucalypti forests I’ve ever seen.
Lehan’s painting reminds me of Summer Bay and where Big M see insects I see cloud patterns. Like my fellow sister in Big M it caused my tear ducts to overfill to a degree. Damn hayfever 🙂
Thank you Lehan for your painting and for the record I have protanopia.
“Protanopia (1% of males): Lacking the long-wavelength sensitive retinal cones, those with this condition are unable to distinguish between colors in the green–yellow–red section of the spectrum. They have a neutral point at a cyan-like wavelength around 492 nm (see spectral color for comparison) – that is, they cannot discriminate light of this wavelength from white. For a protanope, the brightness of red, orange, and yellow are much reduced compared to normal. This dimming can be so pronounced that reds may be confused with black or dark gray, and red traffic lights may appear to be extinguished. They may learn to distinguish reds from yellows primarily on the basis of their apparent brightness or lightness, not on any perceptible hue difference. Violet, lavender, and purple are indistinguishable from various shades of blue because their reddish components are so dimmed as to be invisible. For example, pink flowers, reflecting both red light and blue light, may appear just blue to the protanope. A very few people have been found who have one normal eye and one protanopic eye. These unilateral dichromats report that with only their protanopic eye open, they see wavelengths shorter than neutral point as blue and those longer than it as yellow. This is a rare form of color blindness.” Source Wikipedia.
As an academic and an artist I thought you may find that interesting.
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Lehan, thanks for the beautiful painting. It reminds me of raw earth, and insects, and colours of a landscape, and writing that may be millions of years old.
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How very lovely. It feels very appropriate to me. I love it when a painting feels as if it is meant for ‘you’ or your circumstances. I have been granted a public housing property that had nothing on it other than a virulent bougainvillea.
I am sitting at the screen covered in leaf fragments and sand and dirt. The property is beginning to acquire some shape. The world outside is hot and yellow and orange in places as summer is in this part of Australia when sun hits its crumbled clay and sandstone stone and rubble. Twigs in the dust are skinny and black. They fly away out of the neighbour’s indigenous tree forest. They fall and droop over my fence. I have planted four of my own in the front yard now sculpted bare and raked around the new four plants that seem happy. I am happy i chose them.
Everything is different and everything is the same. Lehan, thank you for this lovely painting for our viewing,
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I was going to make a comment about Lehan’s beautiful painting, but your comment is so beautifully written, as beautiful as the painting, yet different. Something else. You brought tears to my eyes.
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Fantastic comment Shoe. Now that I am living at number 96 Coronation Street, Summer Bay, the views I get of where the river meets the sea is stunning. To the west I get delightful panoramas of mountains, sunsets and the most beauteous eucalypti forests I’ve ever seen.
Lehan’s painting reminds me of Summer Bay and where Big M see insects I see cloud patterns. Like my fellow sister in Big M it caused my tear ducts to overfill to a degree. Damn hayfever 🙂
Thank you Lehan for your painting and for the record I have protanopia.
“Protanopia (1% of males): Lacking the long-wavelength sensitive retinal cones, those with this condition are unable to distinguish between colors in the green–yellow–red section of the spectrum. They have a neutral point at a cyan-like wavelength around 492 nm (see spectral color for comparison) – that is, they cannot discriminate light of this wavelength from white. For a protanope, the brightness of red, orange, and yellow are much reduced compared to normal. This dimming can be so pronounced that reds may be confused with black or dark gray, and red traffic lights may appear to be extinguished. They may learn to distinguish reds from yellows primarily on the basis of their apparent brightness or lightness, not on any perceptible hue difference. Violet, lavender, and purple are indistinguishable from various shades of blue because their reddish components are so dimmed as to be invisible. For example, pink flowers, reflecting both red light and blue light, may appear just blue to the protanope. A very few people have been found who have one normal eye and one protanopic eye. These unilateral dichromats report that with only their protanopic eye open, they see wavelengths shorter than neutral point as blue and those longer than it as yellow. This is a rare form of color blindness.” Source Wikipedia.
As an academic and an artist I thought you may find that interesting.
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Very pleasant composition.
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Many thanks, Lehan. It’s great to have you back. Apologies for delay, my Email is playing up.
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