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Extracting the Heart Print
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Extracting the Heart New Year's day 2020, New Zealand, the sky was darkly orange from the bush fires in Australia. The beech forest where I live is bathed in this eerie orange light and smells of smoke/death. The forests and animals in Australia burn, the horror hangs in the air we breathe. While physically engaged in action painting, I keep my mind out of the picture. Instead, I try to invoke feeling and emotion. I live in the heart of a beech forest. The forest is in my blood: it flows through my veins. I have a deep reverence for the forest, the whole being, being one giant life. I arrive at a point in the painting where I had to leave it alone. I see a feeling of who gave birth to red-blooded creatures. The green-blooded world came first. We are witnessing the death of a giant ancient being. (Scalping the earth of forests, then digging down to the bone, harvesting the earth’s body to feed this toxic mimic of life – the machine). *Like coming out the other side of breast cancer for me this painting is a deep wound, deep ancient life, deep forest light. The healing room. This painting has a raining crystalline effect like rain catching amethyst light.
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Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:8 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:13.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
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ARTIST STATEMENT “My work strives to depict the hum and dynamic interplay of colours and light, water and sky. Life: the warm sands alive with cockles; the light angling through the trees; the myriad reflections in a deep pool of water. I want the raw image, the organic aesthetic to enliven the canvas and the space it goes on to inhabit.” Kate Williamson, artist. “The artist explores this analogy by creating landscape forms which strip away the reality of the scene to replace it with something that gives the impression of moving liquid. This is particularly evident in the earth-fire-and-water composition Pool of colours, where the solidity of the landforms seem to melt into a flow of hue and light. A similar suffusion of solid elements is found in the sun-drenched Orb. More tangible lands emerge in the high country valley of Origin and mountain meadow of Light Scatter II, but it is perhaps in the deep molten undergrowth and solid branches of Forest Lights that the exhibition reaches a peak.” James Dignan, arts reviewer. ODT ArtSeen: June 7, 2018 Kate Williamson was born in Christchurch, and now lives in the nature reserve of Waipori Falls, New Zealand. Renowned for her large and striking works, which are a direct response to her environment. Kate's highly original artworks are held in collections around the world.
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