Clouds

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Constance Kilgore's sky paintings are essentially abstractions that have manifested themselves in recognizable form.  She works intuitively and allows the painting to create itself. However, her inspiration first arose during a fellowship at the Polli Talu Arts Center in rural Estonia – where the flat, unspoiled landscape is upstaged by the ever-changing displays above. 

A Note About the Titles

Though her paintings are not site-specific, they are meant to convey a sense of timelessness, of place outside of time. Their titles are often archaic words, chosen as much for their poetic sound as for their obscurity, and she hopes that they invoke ancient stories in the viewer’s mind.  Gridelin = archaic word for violet gray. Angelus = Latin for angel. Canticle = short song or prayer. Empyrean = of the sky, heavenly, sublime. Chaomancy = a form of divination involving aerial visions. Strathspey = Scottish reel-like dance of moderate tempo. Also "strath" is a Goidelic (ancient Scottish language) word for valley. Spey is a river in Scotland, whose name is so old no one remembers what it means (earliest record 2nd C AD). Cymric = Old Welsh language. Shoures Sote = Middle English from Chaucer, sweet showers (as in "April showers"). Every Holt & Heeth = also from Chaucer. Roheline = Estonian for yellow. Asturias = in the Middle Ages Kingdom of Asturias was situated on the Spanish north coast facing the Cantabrian Sea (Mar Cantábrico, the Spanish name for the Bay of Biscay). Asturias has been populated since the lower Paleolithic era. Wolken = Archaic, sky. Persica = pertaining to peach. The word peach itself is a corruption of the Latin word Persica meaning Persian. Quagland = marshy, marshland. Matsalu = area of Western Estonia characterized my marshes. In 1976, Matsalu was included in the list of wetlands of international importance under International Convention on the Protection of Wetlands. Almagra = An ochre of a fine deep red, from the Arabic. Telos = Philosophical term relating to an ultimate objective.