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August 6, 2024 In

For Hilma 2023

Graphite, watercolour, egg tempera on sewn vintage book pages
24 x 18.4 cm l 9.5 x 7.25 in

Inspired by the shapes and colours of Hilma af Klimt’s work, I made these little paintings to work in tandem with a series of drawings titled Becoming a Forest (page 18). They are drawn onto the sewn pages from a hundred-year-old book that was coming apart at the spine. Although it felt odd to make marks and colour over the existing story, there was a subtle joy in the melding of words to visual imagery and the value of extending the life of a book that seemed destined to be discarded

July 26, 2024 In

We Are the Seeds 2022

Watercolour, ink, graphite & coloured pencils on 30% recycled & Fabriano paper
17″ x 14″  |  43.2 cm x 35.6 cm   &  59″ x 90″  | 149.9 cm x 229.6 cm

This series of watercolour paintings explore beyond the surface, the seen, the known of the natural world.
They are roots, branches, wings, mycelium, seaweeds; they are energy and vibration.
They are my versions of how living elements communicate with each other: measurable, recorded energetic language.

“The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind.” ~Rumi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THEY TRIED TO BURY US BUT THEY DIDNT REALIZE WE ARE THE SEEDS 

 

July 14, 2024 In

Qualia Forest 2020-22

Graphite, watercolour on hotpressed paper
63 x 48 cm

When thoughts, ideas, challenges, visions, imaginings and dreams all come together in conscious experience that is yours along yet strangely part of a whole.

Entanglement, entrainment, consciousness, awareness.

 

October 9, 2019 In

Gathering the Gap Botanicals 2018

Boiled botanical prints with graphite & watercolour
19 x 19 cm l  20 pieces

This experiment with boiled botanicals on cotton paper led to the series of drawings similarly titled Gathering the Gap (see next portfolio page)