After many a year exploring different mediums and subject matter, the actual serious act of ‘picking up of a brush’ occurred relatively late for these three local artists.
Today they find artistic sustenance by deviating somewhat from the conventional.
Jacky by textured backgrounds in her water colours.
Jette by a palette that confronts perceived expectation.
Laurel by applying oils with literally ‘whatever comes to hand’.
Brought together by friendship, it is pure happenstance that their individual body of work complement each other so well, both tonally and emotionally. Having reached this stage in their development, they are beginning to feel they might be nearing home.
The exhibition ‘Things Left Behind’ is in part a hymn to the inconstancy of time and the pivotal importance of emotion in its recollection, resonating with Klee’s observation that: ‘one eye sees, the other feels’.