I work in watercolour for its immediacy and translucency, to construct a visual narrative, which asks questions concerning humankind’s sense of place and relationship to the natural world.
This body of work is a close, personal observation of life in two very different gardens, located on opposite sides of the world. In each, the human inhabitants strive to co-exist with nature.
Drawing from my immediate environment, and inserting human elements such as poetry and music, I construct an intricate tangle of life.
The patterns and forms that reoccur in nature apply to us too, as does the cycle of life and death. The natural world is not something other. We are a part of nature, not apart from it, and if we lose touch with nature, we lose our sense of place in the world.
Image: Carolyn Roberts, ‘Window to a Garden – Swallowtail’, Watercolour on paper, 39 x 39 cm.
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