Near and Far of Things

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Materials: Chinese ink and water-based mediums on watercolour paper

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This series is a part of a series exploring the closeness of things, experienced from afar.

The irreconcilable phenomena, brought on by the visual tension of simultaneously encountering the flowers and seedheads up close and from afar, plays on human's biophilic propensity and the complex connections between being, time, and place.
Informed by the Chinese ink painting method of manoeuvring bulks of water over thin rice paper, and observation of vernal pools found in the woodland around the UK, I like my working process to be intuitive and organic. Heavy puddles of ink and pigments are first introduced onto the heavy paper where their residual marks guide the subsequent brushworks. This is one of my ongoing series where familiarity and contradictions of 'being' and 'place' play out.

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