Site for Artist / Painter Gina Jrel!

Medium:

Oil, acrylic, acrylic jewels, and seeds from the artist's flower garden on masonite in custom frame.

Dimensions:

18"w x 36 3/4" h Framed

Edge Treatment:

This piece does not have painted edges, as it is in a custom frame.

Framing:

Custom blonde wood frame is simple in design, and has a natural, organic feel to it.

Original available for purchase:

Private Collection / Dammeron Valley, Utah

Available in Giclee:

This song, and the inspired painting "Pray For Rain," symbolizes for me the last five years of my life. It is an intensely personal piece for me...a way of symbolically articulating all of my hopes and dreams in a single image.

This chapter of my art career - the last 5 years - has been spent "planting many seeds:" planning, preparing, working, nurturing...very hard and with much passion. All of my time, my heart and life's labors have gone toward cultivating my hopes and dreams for the future.

Now, the planting is done. With much hope and humility, I wait with great anticipation for the rains to come. I am seeing the dark, moist clouds gathering overhead now, and have felt some wonderful, cool water droplets on my shoulders. I can smell the sweet promise of heavy showers in the air.

I pray for rain, and excitedly await what wonders will grow from my labors.

I chose the garden metaphor to represent the last five years, because my outside-of-art hobby is flower gardening. I collect tall bearded iris flowers, and take much satisfaction in growing daisies, salvia, snapdragons, succulant plants, and many other nature treats for the eye. The concept I wanted to express perfectly paralleled the same type of care, work, planning and patience that goes into planting and cultivating a flower garden.

I wanted to put a little more of myself...my personal passion...into this intensely personal piece. So I collaged some of the flower seeds from my own flower garden in the soil of this painting. What are they? Daisy seeds, salvia seeds, and some of my favorite: moonflowers and morning glory seeds. That seemed to attach the piece directly to my personal life, include a piece of my actual garden in this piece that has so much personal symbolism engrained.