In this body of work I have continued to explore the use of mediums I know and love such as hessian, acrylic paints, botanic dyes from the kitchen (teas, turmeric, and vegetable dyes), paper, wools, charcoal, oil pastels and inks.
I have incorporated various techniques of printmaking, slow stitches, and slow painting into my practice to provide and embed textures, light and depth into my works. The nature of the medium, or material speaks to me as being integral and interwoven within my works. These ideas and techniques become lessons each time I create a new piece of work.
Slowly building layers of paint is very meditative and healing. This process is crucial in being able to express the deep connections I feel to the natural environment shapes and natural structures of hills, cliffs, mountains, water, grasses, claypans and sandhills.
The use of soft pastel colours and earthy tones is a focal point and contributes to the subtlety and expressions of abstraction that I feel can only be observed standing in the middles within somewhere or imagined from above.
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