NATURE SERIES
CARLY HOUSIAUX AND MIA SCHOEN
Exhibition dates. 2 - 13 Nov 2022
Opening Reception : Thur 3 Nov 2022, 6:00 - 8.30pm.
NATURE SERIES BY CARLY HOUSIAUX
During the lockdowns I had access to a small garden surrounded by high walls, a small patch of paradise within the suddenly still and silent city. It was fecund and abundant, with green tendrils growing wild; a space to nurture and be nurtured.
I would sit and observe the garden for hours, watching and listening. Fascinated by the many and varied life that would come, day after day to visit the little space.
These moments provide a comfort and joy that can never be manufactured, hoarded or held. They are experiential moments of profoundity, that have no expectation and require no result. In those liminal moments, we are the universe experiencing itself.
I wanted to honour those moments and celebrate the beauty and peace I found. This series of works are meditations on those fleeting moments and memories, both real and imagined. An attempt to distil the colours, shapes and textures that represent that time and feeling. I hope I convey some of the magic, majesty and reverence I felt bearing witness to this theatre of life; my untethering from the demands of a constructed and moribund reality.
NATURE SERIES BY MIA SCHOEN
En Plein Air Various/Jacana Weather
Through painting I've been exploring energetic expression and distilling my experience of nature and landscape through two differing source modes.
Through the En Plein Air painting practice I have adventured so to speak and immersed myself in place from the highly cultivated Botanic Gardens to the wilder spaces of rivers edge and mountainside. The act of painting in-situ in this way allows for a kind of meditation in place – temperature, colour, shifting light, the expanded and contracted moment become an overview of experience directly connecting the painting to an energetic remembrance of place.
The Jacana weather paintings present a small cross-section of the ever changing and awe-inspiring moments I have been documenting in the skies around my home and studio. ‘Weighted’ scenes are expanded from the mechanical eye, whose stasis, push the real to the unbelievable.
