FRAGMENTS AND THREADS.
My art journey started in earnest five years ago. My daughter had just commenced her first year at RMIT studying a Bachelor of Art (Fine Art). Seeing how much she was learning and developing her skills in painting I just had to investigate, and happy I did.
My current practice explores childhood memory, the subconscious and loss, and how this can become bittersweet over the passage of time. The lines and splatter represent the unpredictability of our memory, whilst painting I have often wondered ‘if what I was remembering was true’. I like to think of the lines as threads, interweaving, connecting and having a life of their own. I want to create in my work tension between memory, time and emotion, bringing two opposite elements together chaos and harmony. I approach my practice first intuitively selecting colours and creating random patterns in the underlayer of the painting then intentionally after deciding on the subject matter working the background and foreground into one cohesive artwork.
