Mary P Williams

or … Butterfly Calligraphy … or Butterflies and Symbols …

The Language of Butterflies I

There are several butterflies with names suggesting symbols we are all familiar with. There is the “comma” butterfly and the “question mark” butterfly, the “twin spot” and the “sickle-winged”, the “crazy eight” and the “red-disked”.  Many have eye-spots intended to deceive their predators.   My first painting was an attempt to assemble some of the common symbols and show them on butterflies.

Butterflies II by Mary P Williams

The second was more specific … the patterns seem like graceful, spontaneous writing … if only we could read the messages!!