∴NATURE SERIES∴
With strong inspiration from nature, as with all my work, the pieces below situate themselves deep within a forest, a place of refuge and healing comfort for me. This series of work tells a story of darkness becoming light. It speaks of finding a pathway through a difficulty, challenges of home relationships and navigating mental well-being.
Flames flicker, dancing and becoming shapes of animals or flora. They begin this tale, reminiscent of ancient folklore story telling from ages gone by.
Are these flames comforting, or threatening?
To me they are a thing of inspiration and beauty. An element that contradicts itself. It comforts, yet can harm.
Are they flames of a survival campfire in a forest, flames of celebration and gathering in ancient times, or flames of a cosy home hearth, the heart of the home, as it was once known by all.
A forest and home of flames, destruction and comfort, rabbits and wolves, prey and predator and colourful enigmatic fungi, food or poison
Flames flicker, dancing and becoming shapes of animals or flora. They begin this tale, reminiscent of ancient folklore story telling from ages gone by.
Are these flames comforting, or threatening?
To me they are a thing of inspiration and beauty. An element that contradicts itself. It comforts, yet can harm.
Are they flames of a survival campfire in a forest, flames of celebration and gathering in ancient times, or flames of a cosy home hearth, the heart of the home, as it was once known by all.
A forest and home of flames, destruction and comfort, rabbits and wolves, prey and predator and colourful enigmatic fungi, food or poison
Polyphony 21 , Exhibition, Queen Street Studios Gallery, 2021
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Rabbit , 2021, framed 17.5 x 22.5 cm, ink on paper
I'm sorry would be an insult I'm only a rabbit, and you, a .... Still you remain in the pursuit That I be your family, and you my ..... Why do you still show no ..... You and I are not the .... I'm only a ......, and you, a wolf. Although that is not what you understood How many times must I decree That you and I are not ...... The undergrowth carpet for some hides all But I, no longer wish to feel so ... |
I long to get lost in the woods
Stray from the path Become one with the ....... Protected by the canopy Comforted by the undergrowth Where else would I rather be than the Dark and ...... woods I long to get lost in the woods Wandering from my roots Following animal tracks I wonder if they are what I .... Happening upon a tree I wonder how much it has .... Perhaps it knows much more than me, or any of ........ How do you communicate Do the fungi that grow beneath ........... |
Cadmium , 2021, 42 x 56 cm, oil on canvas
Growth , 2021, 56 x 42 cm, oil on canvas
Proxy , 2021, 56 x 42 cm, oil on canvas
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Severed, Growing Tall , 2020, 20 x 25 cm, oil on wood