Lavender Grace

A gift to comfort and encourage hope and healing. Or for those who love flowers "A field of lavender never fails to take my breath away. You experience lavender through all your senses - not only its aromatic fragrance, but its pure visual beauty... its form is uplifting, and the colour is gorgeous. In any garden, it's a standout. It even tastes good. Speaking as a gardener, lavender is just good for the soul - and so, it heals. I wanted this piece to be a healing piece. But it could also be seen as a piece about strength. She's looking up; her stance is strong and uplifted, like lavender. I named her Lavender Grace... perhaps she could remind you of someone who exemplifies a life of beauty and grace." - Susan Lordi. The figure includes a gift tag with sentiment 'May all your senses be filled with healing grace'.

Approx. Dimensions: 14cmH 7.5cmW 5.5cmD

Willow Tree

Artist Susan Lordi hand carves the original of each Willow Tree sculpture. Using family and friends as models, Susan tries to capture a moment in time, or express a feeling. Pieces are cast from her original carvings, and then individually painted by hand. Softly washed colours, carved and metal accents, and representative icons of nature mark Susan’s work.

Her figures continue to evolve as she identifies emotions so important for us to convey, and renders them in simple, pure gestures. These art forms beautifully express love, closeness, healing, courage, hope…all the emotions of a life well lived.

The name Willow Tree was chosen to symbolise all that is gestural and beckoning. The figures are columnar in design, like a tree, and often carry natural objects or animals as metaphors for human virtues or qualities…rosemary for remembrance, a bird for healing, flowers for beauty. The sculptures are rendered so as to suggest elegance, simplicity, peace and serenity. Forms reveal their expressions through body gestures only…a tilt of the head, placement of the hands, a turn of the body.

Emotions are left to the viewer to discern, which makes them personal and powerful. ‘Willow Tree is not necessarily a likeness, it’s a way of conveying emotion…a reminder of someone we want to keep close, or a memory that we want to touch, or see.

I hope that people can recognise subtle expressions or gestures of those they love, and from that, be able to select pieces that are uniquely meaningful for them.’ Susan Lordi