Notes

Complexity of Nature I, II and III are a response to Forel’s Hidden Art in Nature carpets; a composition of texture, colour, lines, shapes and movement competing for attention.

Appearing organised in some structural way, the subject matter cannot be defined or identified. The artist’s impression represents nature as fleeting and changeable. Paint is applied lightly, with a transparent quality, reminiscent of watercolour at times. Quick brushstrokes allow for movement and a visual language. Numerous close-up photographs of her reference material – a weathered cutting from her garden and a lichen covered
piece of bark – communicate her interpretation and translation of the selected artworks from the Rupert Museum’s collection. Painterly illusion and technique evoke a softer tactile quality in some surface areas – reminiscent of the carpet’s surfaces.

The artist viewed and photographed her own reference material extensively and then worked in studio, without visual imagery, focusing only on her visual memory and subconscious interpretation of both own material and the AbstRact-the hidden synchrony artworks. This led to an intuitive selection process paired with an analytical choice of formal elements – the creative process being the crucial and central motivation for this artist in her art making.