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Pensive in the Snow (Fall 2024)

by ©️ MaOphelie-Sophie D. Schallerwright

Digital art composed on Procreate with iPadPro

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Will I ever know but a mere shadow ?

Wondering is haunting and all memories cristal clear.

Beyond and above all

Cherished ghost

Love remains.

Did they let you down with these lines ? Were you ?

And way below

We walked a few

Steps

Arms wrapped in smoke and dust,

And I can’t pace

If not you …

©️MaOphelie-Sophie

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Apotropaïsmes

Je rêve une collection. Je la sais remembrance. L’inverse est tout aussi vrai pour moi qui ne collectionne que de rares fragments mnémosynes.

La baie vitrée de Suzhou volée en éclats me renvoie aux mondes de verre de féerie, aux lectures modulées du vers ancien à la métrique hypnotique et un peu ivre – voix graves, légèrement voilées.

Le chant qui anticipe ou se remémore a ses odyssées, ses utopies, ses fata morgana. De même, l’œuvre peint. Ma peinture est un portrait de Psychê, une mosaïque d’instants-paysages flottants, outremondes d’aval et amont. L’envie n’y a pas droit de cité. L’intempérance y a le souffle court. Le symbole s’érige, apotropaïque, aux fins harmoniques.

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Un conte s’invente.

Il devait avoir 10 ans. L’enfant avait les joues roses et rondes. Il vivait aux temps des splendeurs rêvées, des ruelles en méandres, murailles basses, brillantes comme le kaolin sous leurs tuiles vernissées. Il explorait sa ville de soie.

Une chimère est tombée à ses pieds. Elle a les joues couleur de cendre, la gueule béante, les yeux ronds et les pattes griffues.

Elle est de bon augure.

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Je dépose un baiser au front de mon aimé.

©️MaOphelie-Sophie D. S. W.

Fata Morgana (2024) – création digitale composée avec Procreate sur iPadPro par ©️MaOphelie-Sophie D. Schallerwright

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Daisies in His Sky by ©️ MaOphelie-Sophie D. Schallerwright • Digital Art composed on iPadPro with Procreate

• final piece from 2024 contrasted with initial sketch from 2018 (with #closeups)

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Unfolding • Closeup

Digital art by ©️MaOphelie-Sophie D. Schallerwright (2024), composed on iPadPro with Procreate

To be continued …

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closeups • Transmigration (2024) – by ©️MaOphelie-Sophie D. Schallerwright

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Une impression de poisson mort avec un glaçon (juin 2024) – création digitale composée avec Procreate sur iPadPro par ©️MaOphelie-Sophie D. Schallerwright (avec closeups)

‘Je ne te connaissais pas encore … Toi, qui m’a demandé ma main. Je songe à ajouter une framboise à ma peinture. Elle figure l’Espoir. Un collier de perles se suspend, s’imprime dans l’air, pont horizontal, impossible. L’équilibre fragile de nos intentions d’amour humaines me donne la mesure de l’entre-Ciel-et-Terre.’ (extrait de mon blog, voir lien ci-dessous)

©️ MaOphelie-Sophie D. S. W.

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MaOphelie-sophie D. Schallerwright

Previously known as sophia D. S. wright

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Artist of the month at Bloomsbury Blends Cafe (Ashland, Or, USA)

Giclees on velvety archival paper on display -Limited edition (50) signed and numbered by the Artist

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On display … soon … at Bloomsbury Blends (Ashland, OR)

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In her dreams

birds stole ink,

Tattooed whispers

on her soul.

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Spell of Wings (February 11, 2023)

by © sophiE D. S. wright - alias MâOphélie

Composed on iPadPro

With Procreate

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… and closeup

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Shamanic (2022) (with closeup)

by © sophiE D. S. wright - alias MâOphélie

Digital mixed media

Composed on iPadPro

With Procreate

Original artwork 34x34 in.

Open edition fine art prints available at :

The story of this art piece started a long time ago with the imaginary portrait of a shamaness. Initially, it was her and only her, holding a screen of blossoming blue clouds. And her skin and fingers were blue also, as a summer sky.

Then, the picture got blurred with flames of fantasy, orange diffused shapes swaying around the central figure. And I let it go …

A few weeks ago, I found an antique bird, small and smooth as a fetish. And it occurred to me that this bird belonged to the shamaness. Floating on a sea of white clouds, the bird entered my old painting with the first snowflakes, and in this midwinter sweetness, the shamaness blushed, as her screen cleared out to become a bronze mirror revealing a golden bird.

Now is the time of enchantment - all walls have faded away, a tree has grown in the sweet moss and receives the caress of the snow, the birds hold precious gifts in their beaks - a peony and a necklace of ground glass pearls -, the shamaness wears a mysterious ring on her finger. All is silent.

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Shamanic was composed on iPadPro with Procreate. As in all of my digital work, my signature plays a role in the composition : A little enigmatic accent, here, my name displayed in the form софи (Sophie) in a square partially hidden by the magic mirror.

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Embellishing a giclee print with metallic golden leaf …

Writing the title and signing …

Closeup on a one of a kind …

Caresse du cœur (2022)

by © sophiE D. S. wright - alias MâOphélie

Digital mixed media

Composed on iPadPro

With Procreate

Giclee print on archival FB Gold Silk paper

Embellished with metallic golden leaf

One of a kind - 30x30 cm

Private collection

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A Girl With A Bird (2022)

by © sophiE D. S. wright alias MâOphélie

These is a three stories construction. A first version, inscribed in the tradition of japonisme was released in 2017 under the title Path of Beauty. Then, in 2019, the painting evolved in another direction, the lady shed her skin, put a fair eighteenth century wig on and became part of a short film made of stills set in motion, being one of the Gifts of Birds as the story unfolds :

There was once a Cheshire Cat Owl in my Garden

In his sleep, many many song birds :

Acorn woodpeckers, jays

& dreamy ladies.

Gems, Flowers, Berries

All telling stories …

In 2022, the lady took off her wig to reveal a braided hairstyle intertwined with the berries gifted by the bird. In one of her many hands, she holds three crystal balls pierced by a golden arrow with a leaf - the weapon of Love. She looks pensively and smiles gently, floating on a dreamy flower bed, as the bird carries to her the enigma of a fourth crystal ball.

What lies ahead ?

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A Girl with a Bird was composed on iPadPro with Procreate. As in all of my digital work, my signature plays a role in the composition : A little enigmatic accent, here, two birds in a magical square holding my name displayed in the form софи (Sophie).

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Aurora (2022) - Closeup

by © sophiE D. S. wright - alias MâOphélie

Digital mixed media

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Giclee prints available :

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Persephone - The Lady of the Beautiful Garden (2022)

by © sophiE D. S. wright - alias MâOphélie

Digital mixed media

It started with a longing for the sea, yet the sea was far. So, in the summer heat waves, the Lady of the Beautiful Garden bathed in the morning mist with her beloved flowers. As she was lost in her rêverie, he saw her and her eyelashes like butterflies wings.

He gave her a crown of burning ashes, sun and silver, kissed her lips with white orchids, and took her down for an ever after in his kingdom of dormancy …

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Persephone - The Lady of the Beautiful Garden was composed on iPadPro with Procreate. As in all of my digital work, my signature plays a role in the composition : A little enigmatic accent, here, two white doves holding my name displayed in the form МаОфели (M’âOphélie).

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Giclee prints available:

https://www.saatchiart.com/maopheliesophia

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A flower kiss to another

On a fallen tree nesting.

Murmurs of tangled souls.

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Soulmates (March 18, 2020)

by ©️sophia D. S. wright

Digital mixed media

Composed on iPadPro

With Procreate

Original 5050x5050px

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Masks Of Mindfulness (April 27, 2020)

by ©️sophia D. S. wright

Digital mixed media

Composed on iPadPro

With Procreate & PSExpress

Original 7000x9500px

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I composed this piece as a graphic novel where the narration is conveyed through recurrent symbols and figures, sometimes mirrored.

It all started with the obsessive thought that the trendy cliché ‘We are all in this together’ reveals its full accuracy during the worldwide pandemic we are currently undergoing. In this situation, the simple truth that we are much more alike than different is striking. I tried to express this through the many close faces in my composition. Isolated, framed, and yet connected on a deeper level, mindfully, soulfully. The eyes look within as isolation enhances the tendency for introspection, but they look also beyond. They look to the past, they stare at the present and this is why the color scheme talks about the melancholy of times. Those eyes also express the hope for healing, as does the faint tender smiles, the presence of masks, the two slogans - Masks of Mindfulness & Passion for Life -, the passion flowers, the butterflies and the ladybug. We all know that a page will be turned as the left side of this composition suggests, rolling onto itself, fading in greyish blue.