Oil & Cold Wax Paintings

These paintings are from a project entitled, Love Letters From The Labyrinth. I laid a rope labyrinth in my back garden in September 2019 which I then covered with leaves from the surrounding trees as they fell. I walked this labyrinth often and wrote about it afterwards recording the thoughts and feelings I gathered from each experience. Each walk gave me different things to think about and often delivered wisdom I very much needed as I negotiated a new path for myself following the death of my mum the year before. The title comes from the fact I felt each walk resulted in a love letter from the wisdom-filled part of myself. I was teaching myself how to work through the grief I carried with compassion and understanding.

These paintings were first exhibited during my North East Open Studios (NEOS) event with Val Thomson in Aberdeen city from 11th – 19th September 2021.

For all sales enquiries please email me at elainereidwriting@btinternet.com I’m happy to send more detailed close-up photos of any particular painting.

**Laying leaves on top of a rope labyrinth in my back garden, October 2019.**

**Detail no. 1 of Strength. Wisdom. Love.**

**Pay Attention**

**30 x 30 cm on cradled panel**

£175

**For You, Especially**

**30 x 30 cm on cradled panel**

£175

**Stay In The Present**

**30 x 30 cm on cradled panel**

SOLD

**Listening To The Leaves**

**30 x 30 cm on cradled panel**

£175

**A Holding Space**

**30 x 30 cm on cradled panel**

£175

**Trust Yourself 30 x 30 cm on cradled panel**

£175

**You Choose I 30 x 30 cm on cradled panel**

**£175**

Writing To The Self I

40.5 x 51 cm on cradled panel

SOLD

30 x 30 cm on cradled panel

£175

This next set of paintings make up another series of oil and cold wax paintings entitled Talking To The Tides which I painted alongside the Love Letters To The Labyrinth series.