Cosmosis 01 : Stardust Painting

Sonya Rothwell sees Art as a spiritual alchemy – a divine dance of bringing inspiration into being. Her art explores energy, spirit and human connection. Drawing from her own life, the people and things around her, she strips her subjects bare, leaving behind only their essence. Sonya figuratively weaves kaleidoscopic dancing lines with abstracted painterly strokes, though she’s best known for her oil paintings of empyrean consciousness expressing itself (or large scale abstracts of the cosmos). Like galaxies, each work is made up of interconnected canvases – individual parts of the whole, intended to scatter like stars across our sphere. Sonya explains; ‘We’re all made of stars, interwoven and infinite.’ Sonya’s process is very physical, working on the floor ‘in the flow’ – a meditative state – her hands move quickly as melding pools of iridescent colour alchemically paint themselves. Once the spell is broken the work is complete.