The Power of Blue
Plum Cove, oil painting by Melody Phaneuf
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There is a special healing power in blue. I have written before about standing in a ray of blue light from a rose window at Chartres Cathedral as it sent a vibration of pure joy and transcendence through my core. But my appreciation of blue began with a childhood experience.
Looking upward under an enormous maple tree, a downy feather fell from a nest and landed in my eye. When parental attempts to remove it failed, I found myself horizontal, under the blue light of an eye surgeon who carefully unwound the feather from my eyeball. I’m certain that there was anesthesia but the cobalt light that massaged my eye gave me such relief and peace.
My father was a nervous man who became unruffled when he sang in French to a blue sky and a Heavenly Mother~
Je vais le voir toujours, Oh ciel de ma Patrie,
Oh ciel! Oh ciel!
Je vais le voir toujours,
Marie, la mére de Jésu.
Blue is maternal in the sense that it soothes and comforts. Recently, I watched the power of a blue sea restore hope to one who had lost it. To an artist, blue is evidence that what we need to revitalize us is revealed in color and light.
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Boston Artist, Melody Phaneuf is well known for her evocative still life, landscape, and portrait paintings. Her paintings are regularly on view at The Guild of Boston Artists, 162 Newbury Street; at Fenway Studios, Boston by appointment; and North Shore Art in Gloucester from May through October. Phaneuf ‘s paintings have been exhibited at The National Arts Club in New York City, Galerie Herouet in Paris, and with Art du Monde, in Japan.
Melody The Artist Home, founded with photographer and color specialist, Martha DiMeo, features Phaneuf’s original oil paintings on tumbled marble tile murals and beverage coasters, fine art prints, and handmade note cards.
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