Frog City

Imaginary Regions Publishing occasionally makes available prints from the once and only 'Frog City Art'.

I am releasing this reproduction of a watercolour painting called "Frog City".

Digital print on fine quality rag paper, delivered rolled (high resolution and without watermark). For a detailed view, click on the image, and use the zoom-swipe gesture or control + scroll wheel.

ABOUT FROG CITY ART:
'Frog City Art' arose from an interest in the interconnections between humans and frogs. There are so many: evolutionary, genetic, biological, psychological and symbolic, cultural, ecological...

Some 'Frog City' images come from an intuitive need to project an anthropomorphized frog, who feels, communicates, and knows. Images of anthropomorphized frogs are meant to say 'these creatures have their own subjectivity'. We need to study and respect the wonder of their being.

Some images come from an intuition that some art needs to bypass the mind and be accessible to the child in each of us, in a visual language that everyone understands.

Some come from interpreting frogs as messengers. Wherever these messages originate, we may be lucky to hear them before it is too late.

Some images started from studying and imagining a frog's perspective and unique experiences.

All images come from a sense that humans in our time need such emblems of profound transformation as frogs. Every image presents a frog that has entered at least one human psyche with significant meaning and mystery.

HOW FROG CITY ART GOT STARTED
Marianne: I started drawing and painting frogs as a way of relaxing; taking a break from my 'serious' art.

Intrigued by the importance and mystery of these creatures, I looked into their symbolic history, anatomy, behaviour, and ecological significance. The more I learned, the more the mystery deepened.

To add to the intrigue, most people who saw the drawings and paintings wanted to own one, even though I had never seen the work as destined for public viewing. I started by giving the pieces to friends, and then made more. Eventually I had produced a large number of pieces related to frog life.