“Oct 13” by Soulaf Abas

*please contact 3csartcollective@gmail.com to confirm availability before purchase

Watercolor on paper

10" x 8", matted in natural wood frame

www.soulafabas.com

IG: @soullyabas

Terre Haute, IN

More about the art and artist: 

I am a painter and a printmaker. I've been teaching art at an engineering school (Rose Hulman) for six years, which has been a fascinating and enriching experience. My work focuses mostly on loss and grief, and the emotional landscape. However, the work that's accepted in your show is part of a series called "Thirty Days of Fall" that I created while I was on sabbatical in Fall 2021. The series itself started while I was in an artist residency in Temecula, California and continued when I came home to Indiana. Every day, I would pick up a dead leaf while I walked my dogs, and I would come home and spend a few hours painting it. This project was a wonderful experience in paying attention, and being present. The piece accepted in the show is one of the firs paintings I did while I was in California. It is also one of the dearest to my heart, as I identified it from the smell as a native plant both in California and in my hometown back in Syria.