Discover the artist’s journey into developing nature-inspired textured artwork and the link inbetween imagination and mindfulness.
Tell our readers how you started your relationship with art.
While I just began painting 3 and a half years ago, I haveactually been a long-lasting innovative. From sewing to wood work or quilling, I have attempted (and enjoyed!) it all.
My partner and I developed our home on the weekends before we had our 3 kiddos, doing most of it simply the 2 of us, from meshing up the footings to standing the frames, waterproofing, laying the floorboards, tiling the splashback, and painting the interior. We went and foundout how to do a surface for our fireplace, called venetian plaster. It was through our venetian plaster course that I began exploring with inks, paints and various mediums to develop vibrant mirror-like works of art.
Your pieces have this spectacular textural quality to them; what made you desire to work like this?
My texture has constantly been my signature, nevertheless it was a total mishap! While I was developing polished boards for our fireplace, I discovered various items produced thick paste rather than a smooth surfacearea and I fell in love with this. I love the shadow play and the ‘I desire to touch it’ sensation of looking at textured art. When I usage my paintbrush for the veryfirst coupleof layers of an artwork, it is imperfect, huge and loose, so I love sitting down to work on the textured layers with my combination knife, developing more mindful, exact and thought-out aspects to my work. It is extremely meditative.
Nature is plainly a source of motivation for you. Tell me more about your connection with the natural world around you.
I was fortunate adequate to grow up on a big farm in the main west, so from as young as I might keepinmind, every day was invested outside in nature. My brotherorsisters, momsanddads and I would typically make toys from nature, like thistle boats to race down the channels and flower crowns from paddock daisies, or we’d draw images in the bulldust with sticks.
I discover so much charm and motivation in our natural world. Unique shapes cast by shadows, colours of leaves and the notlikely however unbelievable survival of a native orchid in a small fracture of a rock all stay in my mind and act as motivation in one method or another throughout my paint