This series of work is an irrepressible need to express emotional, romantic and pragmatic contemplations that have occurred for me over the past 7 years.
Time spent on many plane flights descending over familiar but always mesmeric terrain, with the few exceptions of being swept across the waves of Sydney Harbour and the winding mysterious roads of the Adelaide Hills.
Tree lines, fault lines, song lines, power lines, lights that shimmer along distant streets and stars suspended on gossamer threads to eternity. There is evidence of humanity and spaces that seem blissfully unaware of human existence. The complexion of the land is both familiar and compelling. I was born to this land. Figurative manifestations of the psyche can be found throughout these works.
They appear through the spontaneous nature of water and pigments. Some are familiar to my heritage, however, I have always sensed the historical presence of others from a vast history of this land that is yet to be fully embraced by all who inhabit it. I work, remembering times and places and people closest to the heart. Casting off shadows of loss. Embracing change in time.
Honouring limitations and learning to let go.
Accepting hardship and death without expectation of release from sadness.
All the while joyfully giving and receiving love that gently touches every day, for there is love, and then there is everything else. Love is one thing. There are infinite ways of expressing it. Technically, these pieces are a considered exercise in multiple mediums, in chemical reactions and experimentation with the self-imposed restraint of avoiding obvious brush strokes. They are a determination to create dream landscapes from memory, starting with pure abstraction and consolidating in recognisable forms.
I would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of these lands and pay my respects to elders past and present of the Ngarrindjeri, Peramangk, Kaurna, Barngarla, Nauo, Cammeraygal, Wallumedegal and Gadigal people.