Onni Nordman painting: 2014

Friday, August 22, 2014

New Work August 2014

SEARCHING FOR THE BULL 2013 oil on canvas 152.5 X 244 cm

DISCOVERING THE FOOTPRINTS 2013 oil on canvas 152.5 X 244 cm

PERCEIVING THE BULL 2014 oil on canvas 152.5 X 244 cm

CATCHING THE BULL 2014 oil on canvas 152.5 X 244 cm

TAMING THE BULL 2014 oil on canvas 152.5 X 244 cm

THE BULL FORGOTTEN 2014 oil on canvas 152.5 X 244 cm

REACHING THE SOURCE unfinished August 22, 2014
oil on canvas 152.5 X 244 cm

The Ten Bulls series will be shown at
Pasinger Fabrik Kultur- und Bürgerzentrum, Munich
April - June 2015

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $157 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.

Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 157 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

New Work June 2014

The Ten Bulls series will be shown at
Pasinger Fabrik Kultur- und Bürgerzentrum, Munich
April - June 2015

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $157 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.

Ten Bulls by Kakuan, transcribed by Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps,
illustrated by Tomikichiro Toruriki

Anchor Books, 1961

No. 3 Perceiving the Bull

I hear the song of the nightingale.

The sun is warm, the wind is mild, willows are green along the shore.

Here no bull can hide!

What artist can draw that massive head, those majestic horns?

Wahrnehmen den Stier

Ich höre das Lied der Nachtigall.
Die Sonne ist warm, der Wind ist mild,Weiden sind grün am Ufer entlang.

Hier kann kein Stier verstecken!
Welche Künstler kann diese massiven Kopf, diese majestätischen Hörner ziehen?

the seed image, from 'Bonanza: Killer Lion', Whitman Publishing, 1966

illustration by Jason Studios

Perceiving the Bull June 10 2014 oil on canvas 152.5 X 244 cm

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

New Work April 2014

ON YOUKALI No.2 2014 oil on canvas 122 X 76 cm

SAILING TO YOUKALI No.1 2014 oil on canvas 122 X 76 cm

SAILING TO YOUKALI No.2 2014 oil on canvas 122 X 76 cm

SAILING TO YOUKALI No.3 2014 oil on canvas 122 X 76 cm

YOUKALI RO-RO 2014 oil on canvas 76 X 122 cm

link to song:

Youkali Tango: Kurt Weill-Roger Fernay

C'est presque au bout du monde (It was almost to the end of the world)
Ma barque vagabonde (That my wandering boat)
Errant au gré de l'onde (Straying at the will of the waves)
M'y conduisit un jour (Led me one day)
L'ile est toute petite (The isle is very small)
Mais la fée que l'habite (But the fairy that lives there)
Gentiment nous invite (Kindly invites us)
A en faire le tour (To take a look around)

Youkali

C'est le pays de nos désirs (Is the land of our desires)
Youkali
C'est le bonheur, c'est le plaisir (Is happiness, pleasure)
Youkali
C'est la terre où l'on quitte tous les soucis (Is the land where we forget all our worries)
C'est, dans notre nuit, comme une éclaircie (It is in our night, like a bright rift)
L'étoile qu'on suit (The star we follow)
C'est Youkali (It is Youkali)

Youkali

C'est le respect de tous les voeux échangés (Is the respect of all vows exchanged)
Youkali
C'est le pays des beaux amours partagés (Is the land of love returned)
C'est l'esperance (It is the hope)
Qui est au coeur de tous les humains (That is in every human heart)
La delivrance (The deliverance)
Que nous attendons tous pour demain (We await for tomorrow)

Youkali

C'est le pays de nos désirs (Is the land of our desires)

Youkali
C'est le bonheur, c'est le plaisir (Is happiness, pleasure)
Mais c'est un réve, une folie (But it is a dream, a folly)
Il n'y a pas de Youkali (There is no Youkali)

Et la vie nous entraine (And life carries us along)
Lassante, quotidienne (Tediously, day by day)
Mais la pauvre ame humaine (But the poor human soul)
Cherchant partout l'oubli (Seeking forgetfulness everywhere)
A, pour quitter la terre (Has, in order to escape the world)
Se trouver le mystère (Managed to find the mystery)
Où nos reves se terrent (In which our dreams burrow themselves)
En quelque Youkali (In some Youkali)

Youkali

C'est le respect de tous les voeux échangés (Is the respect of all vows exchanged)
Youkali
C'est le pays des beaux amours partagés (Is the land of love returned)
C'est l'esperance (It is the hope)
Qui est au coeur de tous les humains (That is in every human heart)
La deliverance (The deliverance)
Que nous attendons tous pour demain (We await for tomorrow)

Youkali

C'est le pays de nos désirs (Is the land of our desires)
Youkali

C'est le bonheur, c'est le plaisir (Is happiness, pleasure)

Mais c'est un reve, une folie (But it is a dream, a folly)

Il n'y a pas de Youkali (There is no Youkali)

Mais c'est un reve, une folie (But it is a dream, a folly)
Il n'y a pas de Youkali (There is no Youkali)