Angela Beloian: The Enchanted Garden

There is life all around us.

At the beginning of 2018 I turned 50 and feeling a renewed sense of life and purpose, began to paint plants emitting radiant lines of energy. By the end of the year however, my Mom was suddenly diagnosed with cancer and died within weeks.  We were very close and I was grateful to spend her final days with her.

Since her passing I have felt her presence every day. These paintings are an attempt at showing how I feel my mother since her death. Sometimes I sense her overlapping me as if we are sharing the same space. Other times I feel her within each of my cells. And sometimes it’s her absence that I feel most. Through painting I am able to express what words cannot.

The plants in my paintings were her houseplants. Some were decades old and had been passed down from her mother or other family members to her. The paintings are a memorial to the life she nurtured and her life energy that continues within me.