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If you are looking at one
of my artworks whether it is painting or sculpture, be.
It a figure, a vessel or an abstract form, there is a
stream of consciousness that has led me to the last
point of movement in my latest work. It is this stream
that makes my art. The stream is about managing to ask
questions that make life interesting to me as the
artist. It is about stretching my mind and emotions into
the "What if?" and the" I wonder why's?". My art is not
a response to my life lived nor is it a reaction to my
present environment. My art is about striving to
interpret my past, present and future involving the
known and unknown without fear and redelivering age old
concepts in brand new husks. My art is an
interpretation, a filter of a mind striving to be
conscious whilst being creative and imagining the
splendid vulnerability of existence in its many forms.
By binding myself almost to the point of suffocation and
then untangling the crazy web to a simple elegant
evocative image is the best way I can describe the
process of my art making.
As a sculptor I feel really unencumbered and carefree in
my present medium. There is very little that the medium
of clay restricts in the building sense. The clay's
fluidity is immediately responsive to my thought. The
color and texture I can achieve within my kiln is the
only endless color pallet available to an artist. Heat
creates color and permanence, an alchemical magic that
allows the work to mutate into its own entity, gaining
its independence after my hands have finished with the
raw unfired process.
After more than twenty years in "the making" my work as
a female, differing in aesthetics, interests and
devotion to my male peers, has evolved to where my
'style' is my ability to view each work as a new "egg."
All works I produce have a dialogue with me during their
conception but their production is as unique as that of
a child and its mother. Throughout this interaction
their exclusive personalities evolve partly dictated by
their medium, the remainder by my influence. My hand and
mind are present in my work in my color sensibilities,
my line sensitivity and my sense of form, as making my
art is a part of how I live my life. So as I first said,
its about asking the questions that then creates the
artwork which then allows the dialogue which then leads
to the opportunity for me the artist and you the viewer
to be bound with a memory whilst revolving throughout
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