Works on Paper - A World With No Horizon

These works on paper were adjunct to the series on canvas shown in the National Art School Grad show, 2023. However I find them just as satisfying. I particularly like working on the antique Whatman’s paper I have been given from a relative who worked as an artist in the 1930s and 40s.

In this collection, A World With No Horizon, I want to create abstract landscape works that capture the sense of us moving through our environment, both above and below the sea. For me that involves a kaleidoscopic view of the world, a sort of surround sound sense of looking everywhere at once.

As an ocean swimmer, I see the landscape from a moving viewpoint above a world with no horizon. However even when we’re not in the ocean, we don’t see the world from a static perspective - we are constantly looking around and shifting our viewpoint.  As I’m walking in the Australian bush, my gaze shifts from soaring cliffs to the lichen patterns on rocks beneath my feet, from sun dappling shadows on tree trunks to pebbles in burbling creeks.