Solo exhibition 'Indefinite'
Indefinite
Toi Gallery
Pataka Art + Museum
Cnr Norrie and Parumoana Streets
Porirua City
Open every day until January 31st 2021
I began work on the pieces in this exhibition during the lockdown in 2019 - I spent a lot of time at home this year, and it took me a while to realise that the colours of my surroundings had sneaked into the paintings. There is the purple of the cat blanket, the colour of the pole outside my front door, the tiles in the kitchen, colour from the bedroom, and colours from my garden and the bush surrounding our house. As time evolved and the scale of the paintings increased there became more emphasis on texture and depth of colour, but always with the same precision that I innately crave in my work - a sense of order even when things don’t quite seem clear.
The title ‘Indefinite’ describes both the ambiguous forms implied by these paintings and the strange kind of time in which we currently find ourselves.
The colour palette for these paintings has been greatly influenced by my surroundings this year.
