Shade

A dramatic painting suitable for the living room, office or dining room. It has a simple external frame and is ready to hang.
This work is from the series 'Sonnets' which explores the concepts of beauty, decay and time ever present in Shakespeare's Sonnets.
The title is borrowed from Sonnet 18:
“By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall Death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st.”
Again a night tree. I was interested in the wordplay “shade” as in a ghost tree, white and twisted, and also ironically as a tree that would give little shade. Text from the sonnet is just discernible in the background.

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Denise Piva is from the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.
She has a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) from Deakin University and a Master of Art (FineArt) from Charles Sturt University.
For her, painting / making is an enriching and very enjoyable discipline.
The paintings represented here are mostly from a broad series entitled ‘Fragments’. 'Fragments' is best described as painted vignettes of visits to other places; colours, patterns - fragments of the whole experience, as it is difficult to appreciate in full. Focusing on a small section of the whole is doable and fun. Lately, the concept of ‘Fragments’ has expanded to include appreciation of the beauty and mindfulness of the ‘everyday’ fragments which enrich our lives.
Denise Piva's work is represented in The University of the Sunshine Coast and James Cook University collections as well as many private collections.
Please enjoy viewing the work.