Land and Sky
PATCH OF SKY — (SELECTED WORK)
Patch of Sky
About 5 years ago our life changed as an apartment was built
behind our back yard and we lost the lovely old big tree
that all our north windows faced. I was very stressed and
sad about it for a few years. Finally the whole thing was
completed — fence and all. We still have privacy in
our little garden thank goodness. The gift in all of this
has been how much I enjoy the patch of sky that we now can
see.
Aira
Aira: of the wind
An invisible breath moves my world. Outside my studio window
the clouds move across the sky, my garden dances to a
mysterious rhythm, and the water surface on the bird bath
ripples.
The Aira series, created with oil stick scribbles like a
gesture drawing, captures fleeting impressions of my
continuing fascination with mystery, movement, energy, and
light.
Gestural Paintings (selected work)
Gestural Landscapes (in progress)
Sky over Garden (selected works)
Sky Over Garden
(selected works)
I am fascinated with the experience of the sky and the
landscape and how each is affected by the light and colours of
the other.
The Sky Over Garden series is created on semi-transparent
archival mylar layers. The “sky” layer is suspended over the
“garden” layer and affects or changes the painted colours on
the layer underneath. I intend the viewer to be drawn into and
through the layers and experience this interaction.
Bridges to Infinity: photographic grid works
Bridges to Infinity: photographic grid works
(select early work)
The photographic gridworks act as mandalas which visually
consolidate the sense of a structural order in the universe;
the sense of a universal energy field which makes itself
visible in the many patterns found in nature.
Each piece of work is created by the repetition of 2 or 3
individual colour prints. The separate prints are placed so
that the rhythm and pattern which link them together become
more important to the eye than any individual part.
The natural patterns discovered and/or created during the
making of the photogrids have acted as resonators that
reinforce my connection to the ever present energy field.