Past Exhibition: The Divine Feminine
An Online Group Exhibition (July 2020)
Participating Artists: Elisabeth (Beth) Hudgins, Linda Maldonado, Elise Ritter, Deborah Taylor
Introduction
What is “The Divine Feminine”? It is the spirit of empathy, connectedness, wholeness, and creativity that dwells within and around us. It is the sacred, sensuous, and invisible presence that urges us to explore, express, and grow. It is the soul’s yearning to connect with the infinite.
In this exhibition, four artists express their interpretations of The Divine Feminine in personal and unique ways. Each focuses on an aspect of The Divine Feminine: the natural world, relationships, the containing vessel, and the shape of the feminine. Drawing on inspiration peculiar to their experiences, the artists produce an array of landscapes of the spirit in nature, figures in relationship, abstract designs of feeling and spirit, and visual evocations of creativity and intuition.
As they developed the art for this exhibition, the painters gathered periodically to share their inspiration and ideas, their sketches and challenges, their feedback and suggestions, and their appreciation of each other’s translations of The Divine Feminine.
Exhibit Organization
Organization This online exhibition comprises the following sections, each of which corresponds to one of the sidebars to the viewer’s right. The individual sections noted below and their corresponding sidebars …
Artists’ Statements
Elisabeth (Beth) Hudgins While starting to think about the idea of The Divine Feminine, I was drawn back to some of the earliest works of prehistoric art: the Venus figurines. …
Artists’ Inspirations
This section of the exhibit provides the artists’ sources of inspiration for their paintings. One painter took her inspiration from her stone cairns, while the others took theirs from writers, …
Artists’ Biographical Information
Elisabeth (Beth) Hudgins Trained as a watercolorist, Elisabeth (Beth) Hudgins maintains her love of transparency, and being able to see through layers of paint and elements. Now a more experimental …
Purchase List for Artworks
Elisabeth (Beth) Hudgins “Cradle,” Acrylic, $400 “Earth Mother,” Acrylic, $400 “Eve,” Acrylic, $400 “Fire,” Acrylic, $400 “Five,” Acrylic, $400 “Forest,” Acrylic, $400 “Stone,” Acrylic, $400 “Water,” Acrylic, $400 Linda Maldonado …