Title: Moshi in the woods. Created with oil paint on gesso’d oil paper. Created with renaissance techniques.
Material & technique
The art works on paper are created with traditional Italian renaissance materials and methods. The paper used is made out of traditional cotton paper. The cotton paper is acid free and completely natural, this allows the colours applied to be of vibrant in appearance and detailed line work to be created. The material is of the highest quality and is created to last. The artist uses a selection of traditional mediums such as pencil, ink, aquarelle (watercolour) and gouache.
About Journal Collection
The Journal Collection consists of paintings and illustrations that are based on diary pages and personal perspective and experiences of the artist. The work is not meant to be particularly cohesive. The work is intended to be evolving and reflective and serves as study. The premise of the artworks is to share a life long history of reflecting and representing experiences, exploring different ideas, experimenting freely outside of a definite collection.
It is important to the artist to maintain creative freedom, to develop and allow herself to change directions during the process. The way the tools and mediums are used by the artists is dependent on experience in both craft and life and personal values. The artist sees this as a very important part of the artist's practice and intends to continue the drawing series. There is also a great curiosity of testing and for the sake of exploring. Experimental works by artists are often kept private and are often not encouraged. The artist really wants to share this part of her work.
About Lockdown Collection
The artist depicts intimate small moments in the artist’s studio. The artist wants to reflect the time she is alone and cut off from the outer world and suddenly being in a very isolated place and facing loneliness with a lot of change. The artist describes the lockdown as a great shift that happened by force, where situations, certainty. The artist was surrounded by medics and was aware of what unknown we were facing as a society. The artist is aware that portraying this is virtually an impossible task to achieve, with this in mind however the artist wants to reflect this time.
The artist has taken the subject from direct intimate surroundings and reflected on objects that appear timeless and irrelevant and made them into the main theme of the work. The shapes and colours are simple and appear in a naif surrealistic manor with questionable perspective and scale. The colours are skewed and over or under saturated. The paintings have frozen actions and movements, captured motions as if they had never moved in the first place. The actions portrayed are floating, folding, flying, drifting and unwanted. The hidden character is the oak wood that is watching everything without being noticed.
The subjects represent impermanence , such as fruits, flies, wood and skies are portrayed. Each element and subject are represented throughout art history, the artist’s choice in this is very deliberate. The artwork is in a dream state / a state of consciousness, also named D-State or REM-State. The subject matter might appear insignificant and not worth portraying. Yet at the time that was all that the artists were surrounded by, whilst everything else was suddenly very far away and unimportant.