THE ART OF TALI LENNOX – The Vampire's Wife

THE ART OF TALI LENNOX Today, I’ve been digging around for inspiration and found myself spending the morning with my beautiful friend, the ferociously talented Tali Lennox and her wonderfully confronting paintings. In an interview she said,

‘I like to place a distorted mirror in front of my viewer and invite them to explore realms that play with the line between vulgarity and luster. I’m interested in what makes people uncomfortable, and the beauty within the theatrics of fantasy and perversion. I also want to bring up questions of mortality, a topic that also tends to make people uncomfortable, the figures in my paintings act as ghosts from another era, the time and setting is in an in-between reverie. Touching remnants of a lost age, and the spirits that move through. I do intend all my work to share beauty and celebration alongside melancholia. Life is both light and dark and we should embrace these sides with equal wonder.’

A woman of immense beauty and grace and a brilliant and highly original young artist, we adore Tali here at The Vampire’s Wife. Love Susie. x

TALI LENNOX

AH, MY DEAR ANGRY LORD

I love this terse little poem by the English poet, orator, and priest, George Herbert about the contradictory nature of religious belief, its good and bad sides, and its joy and sorrow. There's nothing like a bit of hard religion on a Sunday morning!!

NO TEAR-FLOODS OR SIGH-TEMPESTS

In A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, the English poet, John Donne, likens his relationship with his wife, Mary, to a spiritual entanglement between two souls as he says farewell to her before he goes on a mission to Europe. I love the lines ‘let us melt and make no noise/no tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move’. Beautiful!

THE CARNIVAL IS OVER

I have just a simple song for you all from 1967, all the way from Australia (where my husband is), by The Seekers. I love this song, melancholy but so stirring, and Judith Durham, dressed in what looks like something from the archives of The Vampire’s Wife, is so touching. It is a song full of tears about the end of things and love’s enduring presence. We adore this song here at The Vampire’s Wife.