Description
This image features a skateboard deck painted with a botanical, nature-inspired design. The artwork is set against a deep, wood-grain-textured blue background, which gives it a natural and organic feel. The composition includes several lotus-like flowers in varying colors?bright neon green, muted purples, and dark violet?intertwined with swirling vines and tendrils in pinks and greens. The placement of the flowers and vines flows elegantly from top to bottom, creating a sense of vertical movement and growth.
Art Style:
The art style is a mix of botanical illustration and modern decorative design. The swirling lines and floral motifs evoke an Art Nouveau influence, characterized by its organic curves and plant forms. However, the bold color choices, especially the neon green flower, add a contemporary, almost street-art flair to the piece.
Interpretation:
The lotus flowers often symbolize purity, enlightenment, and rebirth in various cultures, and here they seem to represent resilience and vitality, growing and flourishing against the dark blue woodgrain background. The contrasting color palette?combining vibrant neon with deep, shadowy tones?could symbolize duality, such as life emerging from darkness or spiritual growth amidst challenges.
Overall, this skateboard deck design carries a harmonious and meditative energy, blending natural symbolism with a modern artistic approach. It feels both calming and dynamic, making it not only a piece of functional gear but also a reflective work of art.
Item Special Note
Jennifer was born and raised just outside of Portland, Maine, spending much of her summers on Frye Island in Sebago Lake, Maine. She is a proud single Mom of 2, loves animals, the beach, writing, all mediums of art, and crafting. Growing up, Jennifer always enjoyed art and attended continuing studies courses at the Maine College of Art while she was still in high school. Jennifer has a varied style where no subject is off limits. Her subjects could be rocks, furniture, or everything in between. She has a creative eye that allows her to pick up minute detail that most miss.
Jennifer is family oriented and maintains a fabulous relationship with her two adult daughters. Jennifer jumped at the opportunity to create an original piece for Heart of Stoke for this years competition. She regularly donates her arts and crafts to help support multiple nonprofits such as Girl Scouts and 4H.
She continues to create new art and learn new crafts and has recently began designing tattoos.
Jennifer is available for commisioned original pieces. You can see more of her portfolio on Facebook under the name Handmadenmaine.