Quiet Contemplation
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Object number3897
TitleQuiet Contemplation
CreatorHaunani K.M. Bush
Descriptionwatercolor, acrylic, gesso
Date2005
Material130-watercolor painting
Current locationBOE - State Public Charter School Commission
Dimensions
Image: 22 x 15
Overall: 31 x 24
Overall: 31 x 24
Acquired fromHawaii Watercolor Society 2006 Open Exhibit - annual, juried, waterbased media. (10/2/06 to 10/27/06)
Credit lineState Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Art in Public Places Collection
Accompanying textHaunani Bush (1961–2022) was born in Chinon, France, and received a BA in English and a law degree from the University of Hawai`i at Manoa. Though mostly self-taught artist, her vibrant and layered paintings skillfully combine realism and abstraction, while reflecting her love of nature and people. According to the artist, Quiet Contemplation “represents a winter vista evoking a cold, desolate, windswept landscape that is dominated with the dormant seeds of life and nature's promise and commitment to the continued cycle of rebirth.”