#mary herbert

[pulledrounder]

Richard Siken, Boot Theory // Frank Bidart, The War of Vaslav Nijinsky // astralcorbozo on TikTok // Mary Herbert, A Long Time in the Desert // Dan Deacon, When I Was Done Dying

[weepingwidar]

Mary Herbert (British, 1988) - Gathering (2023)

[berndwuersching]

Mary Herbert In the soil, in the night garden, 2020 soft pastel on paper, 20x15cm

[psikonauti]

Mary Herbert (British, b. 1988)

A Murmur, 2021

Soft pastel on paper

[fishsticksart]

comfort and curiosity

[tumbr user @enamoured-suggestion // Meanwhile, Richard Siken // A Murmur, 2021, Mary Herbert // tumblr user @wlwdaydreamms // tumblr user @ratorim ]

[cruelyear]

"Family" by Mary Herbert (December 14th, 2021)

https://instagram.com/maryanneherb?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

[waywardlandscape]

Mary Herbert: Nucleus. Oil on linen, 2022-23.

[campsis]

Mary Herbert (@maryanneherb)

Rest Oil on linen, 210x180cm, 2023

[koerperlich]

Mary Herbert Another sea, 2020 soft pastel on paper, 14x25cm

[gogmstuff]

Late Louis XIV & Baroque fashion -

Top:  ca. 1688   François de Troy  - Lady Mary Herbert, Viscountess Montagu, previously the Hon. Lady Richard Molyneux and later Lady Maxwell, as Diana (Coughton Court, Warwickshire). From tumblr.com/blog/view/costumedufilm; fixed spots & wrinkles w Pshop, 947X1200 @72 277kj.

Second row left:  1690s Lady by Alexis Simone Belle (Hermitage). From their Web site 1434X1880 @72 832kj.

Second row right:  Lady, formerly called Mrs. Deshoulieres by Nicolas de Largilliere (location ?). From tumblr.com/blog/view/sims4rococo76; erased spots & blurred cracked areas w Pshop 1204X1500 @72 550kj.

Third row:  Élisabeth Charlotte of Bourbon-Orléans (1676-1744) by François de Troy (location ?). From roehenstart.tumblr.com/image/689983062298263552 1065X1500 @72 472kj.

Fourth row:  17th century Madame de Rignac by workshop of Nicolas de Largillière (location ?). From anticstore.art-92195P; erased spots w Pshop 2452X3057 @150 1.3Mj.

Fifth row left:  Sophia Dorothea, Queen of Prussia by ? (location ?). From tumblr.com/blog/view/papered-in-rose-toile; enlarged to fits screen 996X1200 @72 226kj.

Fifth row right:  1700-1710 Dorothea Sophie von Neuberg by Parmese school (Galleria Nazionale di Parma - Parma, Emilia-Romagn, Italy). From tumblr.com/lenkaastrelenkaa; erased many spots w Pshop 866X1123 @72 825kj.

Bottom:  Dorothea Sophia of Palatinate-Neoburg (1670-1748) after Giovanni Maria delle Piane (Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf - Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany). From tumblr.com/roehenstart 1280X1644 @72 553kj.

[lilidawnonthemoon]

[pulledrounder]

Mary Herbert, Neighbours of Fire (2021), acrylic and oil on canvas

[weepingwidar]

Mary Herbert (British, 1988) - Mate If We Bury Ourselves (2020)

[michaelamccann]

Mary Herbert

Mary’s work is an intuitive exploration of memory and sensation. Working at the intersection of drawing and painting, she creates subtle and enigmatic works which oscillate between the recognised and the unknown. Her current work is a series of dream-like pastel drawings and paintings formed of a composite of feelings, lived-sensation, unconscious processes and observation.

Mary Herbert creates luminous drawings of mountainous landscapes, underwater scenes, forests on fire, spectral figures, and ghostly architecture, often working with soft pastels. To achieve her signature soft-focus effect, Herbert applies the pastels with a tissue rather than drawing directly onto the paper. Herbert’s recurring motifs, such as round pools and snakes, have been compared to the archetypes in Carl Jung’s philosophy of the collective unconscious. The artist works from sensation, memory, and observation, saying that she is interested in the nonlinear, cyclical time of dreams. Her influences include the visionary symbolist Agnes Pelton and the Polaroids of the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The charged atmosphere has an uncanny yet strangely familiar quality, as if each scene might somehow be anchored in another kind of deep, distant memory.

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[psikonauti]

Mary Herbert (British, b. 1988)

Leaving In Darkness, 2021

Soft pastel on paper

[poppyflo2]

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Pollyanna Johnson’s painted interpretation of Nicholas Hilliard’s miniature of Mary Herbert.