Elements
In this Elements series I need to be brave enough to allow for chaos, for the brush strokes to be left alone. These paintings do not serve the bigger subject without being daring and authentic, even vulnerable. There are moments of suspicion, wondering if it is working and then permitting the marks to build and expanding them unencumbered and with abandon. On a good day, I can feel the trust and the joy; it is a day that flows with gratitude, challenge and decisions made. I surrender to the paint on canvas, allowing it to express the passion of identity.
Merging of Passages & Elements
The Passages and Elements series render boundless nature with structural limitations while defining spaces through colour and form. The artwork summarizes the grandeur of unknown places. These personal narratives from her imagination share the resources of light and energy. Her constant query of how to “connect” has some resolution through the art making process.
Passage Series
The body of works called “Passages” is my attempt to describe the noun ‘transition’ through visual inscription in the form of a landscape. In some works the use of a continuous solid horizontal bar or in others, an opening in a horizontal band is an intentional pause. The idea is to form a resting place for the viewer, a visual comma or breath. It is a “time out” to think and to consider the evolution toward completion of the context both intellectually and as a visually comprehensive painting. The “transition” invites the viewer to journey to either side of the picture plane and actual surface layers, to explore and to ponder the visual thoughts and outcomes. The segmentation is intended to provoke this pause, to provoke a question or a doubt, and hopefully to move viewers to their own personal thoughts. Unlike non-objective work, the resolution here is in the form of a landscape. The paintings in this series complete their own puzzle. Those viewers who prefer not to contemplate the intent, can rest comfortably in a landscape painting.
Featherscapes Series
The “Featherscapes” are portraits to honour the exploration of connectivity. These detailed representations of feathers as they relate and merge into a landscape attracts us to consider and reflect on the singularity of the whole.