The Lonely Egg Planets

A little late, but, Happy New Year.

I just want to thank my collectors, students and friends for being supportive and for coming to see my art at Gowanus Open Studios, The Fence,The Other Art Fair and “Wholeness”, the 17th annual small works show at 440 Gallery.  It’s been a rough year for us all. It helps to have a great community of artists, friends and family.

I wanted to tell you about a small but on-going project. This is my Egg Planet series of small paintings. Originally a project I started with my students  pre-pandemic, after purchasing a package of rough handmade Indian watercolor paper. It was an experiment in trying different watercolor techniques on rough paper, within a circular shape.

The world being as it is, in peril, and the new interest in going to space, I began daydreaming of other planets, birth and rebirth, hence the egg. I imagine these beautiful little worlds as an escape from the problems of our own troubled planet, beautifully imperfect as life is.

Because the shape is pleasing to me, and I like daydreaming I continue creating these little egg planets, a wish, a hope for a less troubled, more beautiful world. 

Over the last few years my collection of these small planets grew, although I have sold some of them and given others as gifts. 

Eggs are fairly perfect in shape, but maybe not as perfect, not as symmetrical as a circle.  When I submitted an egg to the “Wholeness” small works exhibit at 440 Gallery, which ended January 9,  it seemed a perfect fit. What could be more whole than an egg? I will leave you with some images of my egg planets and a hope for a beautiful future, a healed world, a new beginning. 

The Egg Planet paintings are available for sale on my website at https://lindaberkowitz.squarespace.com/store/egg-planet