oohart艺术

Colour Pencil on Wood Panel My practice consists of drawing vibrant, intricate scenes that turn depictions of nature into otherworldly landscapes. I am most interested in pattern and colour. Of course the idea of what is beautiful is regularly thought to be superficial, but I think there is something very powerful and intuitive about the connection we have to things that are beautiful. For me (and most people) this often resides in nature, and so my work has instinctively taken on this theme. I think that there’s something incredible about the fact that an arrangement of colours and shapes can trigger a sense of pleasure within me. This feeling of content is what I search for when making work. The intangible algorithm of what aesthetically makes sense and doesn’t make sense fascinates me. It’s personal and subjective yet also seems to be universal. There are certain colours and patterns and marks that I consistently return to, and I frequently wonder what it is about these things that have made them stick. I am a habitual artist and part of my practice is to remind myself to break out of the patterns that I fall into, to experiment and work through things that don’t make sense until they do. It’s a battle with muscle memory. I like to refer to a place that I have been to and transform the memory into a place of its own. With drawing you can exaggerate or minimise information capturing the essence of a place, which I find it to be quite a poetic process. I often want my work to create a sense of awe. One of my favourite things about looking at art is to wonder at the details. My work contains details within details. This time-consuming process is what I find to be so gratifying about drawing. Through a repetitious process that requires effort and patience, I feel like I’m putting a piece of myself into the work. The time-consuming nature of this is laborious yet satisfying; it becomes therapeutic and hypnotising, which is ultimately what I want my work to be.