jasmine branch black & white 1 Painting

I love the freedom & visceral connection they bring. Still working from the plants that surround the studio space, it is in this contemplative place where progress is made, through the hours you discover, engage in the slight transformations/shifts in the interpretations of shapes by loosely drawing from the various structures of branches & foliage. There is a rhythm in drawing and painting, patterns that follow nature itself. May they be irregular or repetitive, it is the play on finding a balance between the pleasure of making satisfying repetitions, visual symmetry to the more impulsive, spontaneous marks. Like beats & breaks, the guttural tones, ancestral tunes that vibrate and then in the knowing of where to break the visual space. The flow that nature & art provide, meandering, branching, that discernible regularity that is so soothing exquisitely combined with instinctive irregularity, the uncontrived, the push, it is in finding the harmony in the contradictions, trusting the inherent fluency that is in everything. That deeply sits in nature and in us all. I will carry on enjoying this process and hope to portray the aliveness that is in everything, the quickening, that sweet spot.