Woman with a Bowl - Sculpture by Sarah Myers

Woman with a Bowl, Sarah Myers

My newest sculpture strides gracefully forward, bearing a bowl I have clustered with flowers. Her long robes flow back and around her heels as she moves; her left hand is raised to balance the bowl atop her head – just now filled with a gift of blooms in orange and gold – and her right hand, swung down by her side, grasps a bottle or large flask.

Woman with a Bowl, Sarah Myers
Sculpture in red earthenware

She is created from red earthenware which gives a lively tint to her form; the bouquet is a bunch of bronze chrysanthemums, a yellow rose, and leaves of desert plants and citrus.

Woman with a Bowl, Sarah Myers
Detail of face

Relying on the value of spontaneity and immediate vision, I completed her in two day's worth of work; all the modeling was done with a light hand with an eye to preserving an image of beauty, refreshment and vitality.

Sculpture, Sarah Myers

Woman with a Bowl, Sarah Myers
Details

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Sculpture and bouquet by sunset light
Sarah Myers

Sculpture in earthenware
Sarah Myers

Woman with a Bowl
Sculpture, Arrangement and Photography by Sarah Myers

Bright Flowers Light a Dim Day - Photography by Sarah Myers

Bright Bouquet, Sarah Myers
Photography

     On an overcast day, these bright colours came inside - simply a yellow rose, a dark red rose, cherry-coloured geraniums, some orange lantana. In a graceful vessel by my sister Amy Myers, they bring a vivid fistful of beauty to the room, like the music of trumpets and violins on an empty, still noon.

Flowers on a Dim Day, Sarah Myers
Photography

Face - Drawing by Sarah Myers

Face in Near-profile, Sarah Myers
Charcoal, conte, pencil, cut paper

    This is a drawing in charcoal, conte, and pencil; after the sketch was finished on light brown paper, the face was cut from the original sheet and backed with white bristol, projecting a sculptural effect.

Face, detail
Sarah Myers

Study of a Dog, Scratching - Drawing by Sarah Myers

Study of a Dog Scratching
Sarah Myers

   Here's a sketch of a dog, just capturing an unconscious moment.  She is scratching, ears lying back and a long front leg out to brace herself...  The picture's minimal lines are worked in charcoal pencil.

Study of a Dog Scratching, Detail
Sarah Myers

The World of Christmas - Photography and Decorations by Sarah Myers

The Christmas Tree
Sarah Myers

   Christmas draws near. The fragrance of fir-branches fills the house, the sparkle of lights catches the eye; we count the days one by one. We pretend that our tree has been caught under a snowfall of great flakes as large across as a cake or a halo. The ornaments we hang on the boughs are brightly coloured and toy-like. Joy is always full of beauty, but it is not always serious. So we have a camel, thinking of the Wise Men on their long, expectant journey across the desert; and an angel in a gold robe, announcing the birth of the child who is God; and a sheep for the shepherds, the ones who saw an open heaven and the choirs singing eternal glory. Then we have other little figures with no significance except happiness and cheer... We know that our tiny decorations, our songs, our twinkling lights, cannot express the splendor of the world of Christmas. They only express our happiness in its reality, and in the presence of that reality with us - every day, but perhaps more closely felt, more rich and more dear to us now as we hold to the light in the darkness, to the songs in the night, to a sudden glimpse of the eternal. 

Snowflakes and ornaments, except for the glass soldier Sandro and the glass pendants, are my handwork.

The Angel
Sarah Myers

The Camel
Sarah Myers

The Sheep
Sarah Myers

Sandro and Little Dancer
The glass soldier is from Italy.  Other decorations are my own.
Sarah Myers

The Red Globe
Glass from Roumania.
Sarah Myers

Snowfall and Ornaments
Sarah Myers

Blue Glass and Palm-tree Snowflake
Glass from Roumania
Sarah Myers

Christmas Tree and Snowflakes
Sarah Myers

Snowstorm
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Christmas Tree
Sarah Myers

Drawing, Head Tilted Upward - Art by Sarah Myers

Head Tilted Upward, Sarah Myers

A minimalist line-drawing in charcoal on paper.

Head Tilted Upward, Sarah Myers. Detail.

Visitors to the Garden - Photography by Sarah Myers

Bees on Silver and Gold, Sarah Myers
Digital Photography

   Diligent bees with gold bands and filmy wings, humming in and out of the flowers - the ferocious-looking but most welcome guardian of the garden, a giant bronze dragonfly - the tiny silver glint of a blue-gray butterfly, with a curled tongue still tasting sweetness - all these small visitors have been spotted among the flowers, taking as their own world the beauty and brightness of the garden. I captured these images in my sister's garden in the desert, whose progress you can read about here; the pictures are from late summer, early autumn days when the air was full of busy creatures, full of this smaller world which we gladly welcome as our own.  

Guardian of the Desert Garden, Sarah Myers
Digital Photography

Silver on Rose, Sarah Myers
Digital Photography