Glass (Abstract) | Penny Wheatley Artist | Dance, Big Cats - Classical & Pop Portraits - Horses

Glass Vessels not just seen as Glass, they are vessels - containers - with all the time-laden historical and modern connotations of vessels down the ages. That they are glass and can be seen through, are reflective, distortive, create patterns with light, and come in so many shapes, yet with one end -and hold (generally) liquid, etc., is what makes them such a fascinating subject.

These paintings are created in very thin gouache. Although I try to convey the transparency and clarity of glass and the myriad shapes of the vessels, in the end, the idea morphs into abstraction and sheer pattern. But the spirit of Glass and Vessels is always present.

These paintings are, in so many ways, the complete opposite of my watercolours of Big Cats, cats and horses, which are filled with energy and movement. Glass Vessels speak of stillness, silence and meditation.

Glass Vessels Video Presentation

Glass Vessels 1 (Height 16” x Width 17“) — **Glass Vessels 1** (Height 16” x Width 17“)

Glass Vessels 2 (Height 18” x Width 22.5“) — **Glass Vessels 2** (Height 18” x Width 22.5“)

Glass Vessels 3 (Height 16.5” x Width 22.5“) — **Glass Vessels 3** (Height 16.5” x Width 22.5“)

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Glass Vessels 4 (Height 14.5” x Width 11.5“) — **Glass Vessels 4** (Height 14.5” x Width 11.5“)

Glass Vessels 5 (Height 17” x Width 18.5“) — **Glass Vessels 5** (Height 17” x Width 18.5“)

Glass Vessels 6 (Height 11.5” x Width 14.5“) — **Glass Vessels 6** (Height 11.5” x Width 14.5“)

Glass Vessels 7 (Height 9.5” x Width 11“) — **Glass Vessels 7** (Height 9.5” x Width 11“)

Glass Vessels 8  (Height 13” x Width 14.5“) — **Glass Vessels 8** (Height 13” x Width 14.5“)

Glass Vessels 9 (Height 16.5” x Width 13“) — **Glass Vessels 9** (Height 16.5” x Width 13“)

Glass Vessels 10 (Height 20” x Width 23.5“) Sold — **Glass Vessels 10** (Height 20” x Width 23.5“) **Sold**

Glass Vessels 11  (Height 14” x Width 10.5“) — **Glass Vessels 11** (Height 14” x Width 10.5“)

Glass Vessels 12  (Height 18.5” x Width 13.5“) — **Glass Vessels 12** (Height 18.5” x Width 13.5“)

Glass Vessels 13  (Height 12.5” x Width 16.5“) — **Glass Vessels 13** (Height 12.5” x Width 16.5“)

Glass Vessels 14  (Height 14.5” x Width 10.5“) — **Glass Vessels 14** (Height 14.5” x Width 10.5“)

New Glass Vessels

These three new Glass Vessel watercolours herald a return to a subject that I began some years ago, but have often since returned to in my mind.
I remembered the stillness and mystery of those earlier paintings and longed to revisit it. In all my other paintings I am concerned with the vivid portrayal of movement, vigour and passion. But here, within the stillness of the Glass Vessels, there is a quietness, a peace, a meditation. Movement is replaced by a complexity of line and light within the almost mystical and silent stillness.