UNRAVEL - Geotricity Series

UNRAVEL

'All of life is story, story unravelling and revealing meaning.’ Madeleine L’Engle

This work is about the sweet tension of two ideas - that our choices and dreams are writing our story that we are purposefully crafting words and paragraphs and metaphor for our life, and the idea that we are a book of blank pages that are being written upon by the great Author, by those around us, by the environment we immerse ourselves in, by the very earth we are made of.
I love ideas in tension, two things at the opposite ends of a tug of war. If one lets go, the other stumbles backwards and pulls you too far, and vice versa. Both are needed to keep tension on the rope and keep you in the game. It’s not either/or - it’s both/and.
We impact the story, and the story impacts us.
Let it unravel around you. Let it unravel you.

Colours and medium info: Features shades of turquoise, teal, jade, flamingo pinks, salmon, and soft yellow greens. Signed with gold leaf. Painted with acrylics on stretched canvas with lots of beautiful shapes.
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‘Geotricity’ series focuses on endlessly fascinating geometric pieces with vibrant colour. Through geometric shapes and the 3dimensional look they create, I explore thoughts around our perspectives and views as individual humans, and the way we both fight to be heard, and learn to listen. They offer a new story every time you see them, with their varying 3dimensional nature. Geotricity is my most regimented series, implementing both the rhythm in music and life, as well as themes around shifting perspective – it involves structured, repetitive geometric shapes and patterns, with block colours, and designs that incorporate optical illusions to trick the eye and provide endless fascination.
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FRAMING INFO
This artwork is a ready to hang stretched canvas work, with fully painted sides.
If you’d like it to be framed with a timber shadow box, I’m more than happy to do so. This would be an extra cost, and can be confirmed upon your request of frame type.

You are also most welcome to come view and pick up the work in person, I am in Officer, Victoria.

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Much of my painting intertwines musical form and musical language into each composition, exploring the possibilities in transferring musical energy (sound waves) into visual energy (light waves) via paint, and I am continually exploring lyrical movement, pattern, rhythm, melody and harmony as colour and form. Sometimes I love to paint simplified forms of specific melodies and sounds, while other paintings are inspired by the emotions and meaning of songs, music, and words.

I am fascinated by the timeless and infinite nature of music and memory and how they defy linear time. In a single moment, we can touch the world Mozart lived in, transport the soul of the Baroque to us, we can hear what our ancestors heard - echoes of past transcending centuries and carried in to the future. This is a part of what inspires me to paint, giving visual form to those ideas.

My world was immersed in music when I was 6 years old, and I studied through to University, where I completed a Bachelor of Music majoring in flute performance, musicology, ethnomusicology & performing arts. From this life-long pursuit of music, I draw from a broad palette of musical styles and experience, and an ever-growing library of sound inspiration. My faith has also been a steady companion and is a major part of my creative process, ' ma raison d'être ' - painting has a meditative, prayerful quality that centers me each day, drawing me into a contemplative state that connects me to the unseen. It is a process of surrender to allow the work to become what it needs to be.

I would be honoured to have your support, and I hope my work brings moments of reflection and conversation and beauty. Art is made for interaction, and without your thoughts and responses the work is silent.