Kathy Canfield Shepard Watercolors - Gallery: Multi-Paneled Paintings

Perhaps it is not surprising that as a musician, Kathy is fascinated with the relationship between connected events experienced over a period of time. Several of the multi-paneled paintings reflect this, with each panel representing a time-based experience or idea that is complete in itself, yet is part of a whole that transcends its pieces. Other multi-paneled works explore different aspects of an object or event that are experienced simultaneously. The panels in each work are kept together as a set.

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Sextet No. 2: "J. S. Bach: Cello Suite No. 1"
2003

Sextet No. 2-A
"Prelude"
12" x 16"

Sextet No. 2-B
"Allemande"
12" x 16"

Sextet No. 2-C
"Courante"
12" x 16"

Sextet No. 2-D
"Sarabande"
12" x 16"

Sextet No. 2-E
"Menuetto"
12" x 16"

Sextet No. 2-F
"Gigue"
12" x 16"

The six cello suites of Johann Sebastian Bach are the greatest body of work for solo cello. Each panel of this painting reflects one of the six movements of the first suite. The line of the music flows between movements—the lines of dots that migrate among panels are one example. The melodic and rhythmic themes re-emerge transformed, just as the lines of the suite are transformed as the listener experiences the work in concert. The blue, cellular puffs of the first panel change color and shape when encountering new themes in the Courante, and slide along the edges of larger flows in the Menuetto. The "Gigue" is appropriately playful, calling to mind some mythic octopus of the mountaintops.

Original Watercolor (set of six paintings): $9000
Set of six 12" x 16" prints: $900

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