Hidden Treasure Art eMagazine / Spring MARCH 2015

Noreen Larinde is a feminist painter and fine art
photographer, who is also an art historian with
a specialty in East Asian culture. She finds inspiration
in Japanese Zen drama, which considers
Woman knowable only through the subjectivity
of the arts. For the Zen Buddhist life is constant
change, thus Woman is always becoming
transforming herself into higher spiritual states.
Dream
oil on linen
36 x 48 in
2014
An image of a woman floats in the midst of
greatly enlarged zucchini blossoms. In the upper
left is another female image, an alter-ego.
To convey this is her paintings,
she utilizes an architectural element,
a building experienced
in her frequent travels. This reference
to a specific location is
equivalent to the stage of Noh
(Zen) Drama on which the transformation
take place. Often in
the paintings there is a flower
which expresses Woman as a
part of nature, irresistibly beautiful
in herself, and also fleeting
while at the same time powerful
in that she controls her own
destiny.
Bilbao
oil on linen
35 x 42 in
2014
With the backdrop of the Gehry-designed Bilbao
Museum in Spain, a woman dances exuberantly.
In front there is a red flower.
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