My art explores a connection with the landscape and the environment. I combine the visual stories of place and memory.
About my art practice
Connections
My interests or themes within art have always been about exploring a connection with place and the environment. The natural world, its beauty and hostility and its paradoxes and contrasts inspire my work. Like many artists in the Shoalhaven was saddened yet influenced by the bushfire ‘landscape’ in 2020. My exhibition ReCover is a textile response to bushfire damage and recovery. Gallery 76 Queen Street. West Concord. NSW. Opens 29 January 2022.
Crossings
I use stitch with a sense of peace and tranquillity. It is a slow and meditative process and the stitch lines represent the journey and my crossings over the land. I want to narrow the distance between the natural forms and what I am creating. It is through the layering of different procedures that I am able to make my own model of a particular landscape.
Creativity and environmental art
My artwork uses the evocative and subdued effects of layered colour and texture. Drawing or stitches are often added as a means of mapping and recording my responses to the landscape. The contact plant prints use only water and a mordant and the image of the plants develop unusual shapes and colourings and imprint like magic onto the paper.