The contrast between Painting

These paintings are about zooming out from the immediate surroundings around oneself and taking on a bird’s-eye view of the landscape. An attempt to gain a new perspective. In doing this, the abstract shapes that become evident in a landscape can take on an almost cellular form with little intricacies, where the previously seemingly big details are almost lost amongst the significantly larger structures of the environment. The importance of refocusing one’s attention is relevant now more than ever due to climate change. We live in a time of Nature-Society dualism, a concept that needs to be deconstructed as we rely entirely on nature to live. In this work the notion of changing perspective by combining different materials such as acrylics, alcohol inks, texture paste sand which all the paintings take on organic forms and structures. The vibrantly coloured paintings are processed based, letting go of considered outcomes throughout the creation. The mixed media dances about the canvas and takes on its own naturally occurring, layered forms, as would happen in nature. When the paint and materials settle and dry, they take on different forms yet again. I then work into these forms to enhance them further. The depths formed within the layers creates a juxtaposition and almost confusion in the motion of attempting to establish distance but being once again drawn back into the finer details. It entices the viewers curiosity; to come closer and zoom into the paintings to examine the depths of balance and contrast of these landscapes.