Dappled Shadows of Eucalyptus

Lois Bender’s works on paper with stencils s are meditations on the ethereal nature of nature. In her flow of images, she translates botanical forms in their shadows and afterimages of Dappled light…. Colored shadows inspire her in colorings based on her longtime practice of painting with stencils and creating shimmering silhouettes that dance on the surface.Bender’s Shadows become tangible, intermixing and taking on a life of their own as if in the playful turns of a kaleidoscope. She is watching the changes in light and shadow, bringing a hidden world to light and revealing a visual poetry of her floral and botanical forms, each work its own transformation.