Dancer with Scarf - Sketch by Sarah Myers

Dancer with a Scarf, Sarah Myers
Charcoal, white charcoal, red conte and pencil on brown paper

    Here is a dancer with a scarf. The folds of her robe and the folds of her scarf ripple across the air in hurried curves as she sways to unheard music.

    This sketch was inspired by Renaissance or Mannerist art which shows dancers holding scarves or ribbons – images that were in their turn inspired by late Roman art. My vision grew more modern as I drew, lines scattering over the paper to portray the quick movement of body, cloth and expression.  

Kneeling Woman - Sculpture by Sarah Myers

Kneeling Woman, Sarah Myers
Sculpture in terracotta

Kneeling – perhaps dancing – the sculpture poises her delicate arms out and upward; in these images she is holding aloft a branch of brilliant bougainvillea flowers. She was finished after two days' effort, a short time that was mainly a race against the rapid drying of her tiny fingers in the desert atmosphere. After the kiln, she is a light but rich terracotta red, her colour that of a very handsome clay whose formula was developed by my sister Amy Myers. The spontaneous backward turn of her head and neck, the light lifting of her arms, the sense of motion, match the bright colour of the clay and the sunlight in which these pictures were created.

Kneeling Woman, Sarah Myers
Detail of face

Sarah Myers

Kneeling Woman, Sarah Myers
View of back

Sculpture, Sarah Myers.  Detail of face.

Kneeling Woman.  Detail of hand.

Kneeling Woman.  Sarah Myers

Kneeling Woman, Sarah Myers
From direct front

Kneeling Woman, Sarah Myers
Sculpture in terracotta

Music of the Orchids - Photography by Sarah Myers

Ethereal
Sarah Myers, Photography

 In pale light, the tiny orchids immaterialize into fluttering wings, dancing up and down across the arch of their stem. But the miniscule blooms are full of fragrance that dances with them; the air is full of a beauty whose melody - or tinted haze - or intangible happiness - floats far beyond the little handful of white-and-pink flowers.

 

Pas de Deux
Sarah Myers, Photography