Chinese ink and water on Arches paper
300 x 56cm
Chinese ink and water on Arches paper
300 x 56cm
Chinese ink and water on Arches paper
300 x 56cm
Chinese ink and water on Arches paper on canvas
121 x 91 cm
Wanderings 1-5 are closely linked to my experiences of the environment where I reside - in particular heavy summer rain in the valley. Atmospheric moisture and abundance of water flow characterises this specific location.
Balancing the micro-cosmic with the macro-cosmic, I squirted, poured and splashed ink and water onto paper.
Chinese ink and water on Arches paper on canvas
121 x 91 cm
Chinese ink and water on Arches paper on canvas
121 x 91 cm
Chinese ink and water on Arches paper
300 x 113cm
Chinese ink and water on Arches paper
300 x 113cm
Chinese ink on Xuan paper on canvas
3 x 121 x 91.4cm
Chinese ink and water on Arches paper
Plastic raffia strings, 270 x 125cm (approx.)
‘Offerings’, (for a revered dead poet), a hanging installation, is the seed that grew this small body of work. I chose 300gsm Arches Aquarelle paper because I needed a paper thick enough to fold into containers that will also express ink tones and textures. Using two favourite Tang Dynasty poems written in ‘wild grass’ style Chinese calligraphy, folded in a traditional way, to form the 28 ‘rice ‘dumplings’ in the assemblage.