I am an early bird! Never one to sleep-in or display night-owl tendencies.
Finding myself without a studio space in 2020, and with the restraints of the Covid 19 pandemic, I met my creative urges to respond to the abundant inspirations of a new environment by composing poetry, prose and sketches whilst walking our dog along the Māpua foreshore and around the inlet at first light.
I love the multitude of weather conditions, generous skies, ever changing tides, prolific birdlife and moody light. An environment in a perpetual state of flux and a great place and time to get lost in my thoughts.
We had recently sold our property of 20+ years, along with the studio/sculpture workshop/foundry, and inspired by this daily stimulation, I became increasingly excited about a new chapter in my art practice, and the challenge of returning to painting.
With the new studio space completed, I revisited my notebooks and musings, and along with an eclectic taste in music as company, they informed the works in this exhibition.
In much the same way as I have done in the evolution of my sculptural practice, I leave room for viewers to make their own sense and interpretation of the works.
WAKE UP CALL
walking the foreshore in the building light,
a much-diminished hub- bub of distant traffic from the highway across the mudflats,
absent backdrop of high-altitude slip streams to the circling gulls,
and no eager out boards pushing their expectant skippers through the gut.
just the abundant chatter of the tui & oyster catchers telling me I am now the endangered species.
CV19 Lockdown #1
March 28 2020
