Kit Porter

Through a personally developed abstract language, this body of work explores the natural landscape of a coastal environment. Topographical referents, such as maps, satellite images and aerial photography are used for inspiration, but the paintings do not aim to represent the landscape literally. Unconventional materials sourced from the coastal environment: aluminum, cloth, plastic, rope, salt, sand and wood, are combined with more traditional materials: graphite, acrylic, oil pastel, and natural fabric: burlap, cotton and linen. The result are paintings rich in texture, reflecting the artist's emotional response to the beauty and simultaneous destruction of the coastal landscape.

Kit Porter received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from the University of the South in 2005.