These colours make me so happy. So full of life and joy. Vibrant citrus yellows, greens and spritzy blues with touches of warm earthy burnt orange, pinks and terracotta's.
In this painting there is an effervescent 3-dimensional space where the colour underneath is drifting in and out of focus. The colours are softened by the layering of floaty whites and are inspired by the multi-layered landscapes in rock pools, coral reefs and along the shorelines with sand and sea-washed pebbles.
‘Bio Bloom Tideline Flurry II’ is the latest in this series exploring the microscopic minutiae of life and aquatic themes. It belongs to my ‘Bio Bloom’ Series exploring the sublime beauty of microscopic life and the natural world. I am deeply inspired by the natural world and the forces that shape it, especially the ocean. All the tiny fragments of the universe and patterns of nature.
The big. The tiny. The sea. The molecules. The microscopic. These things I think about and look at when I create these paintings. They can be viewed as minuscule cell life just as easily as an underwater sea garden with floating coral blooms. There is also a direct inspiration and reference to the spectacular event of coral spawning (blooming) seen especially each year on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
The organic circular motifs I often use allude to pulsating growth formations, cellular life forms and to the beautiful otherworldliness of the microscopic building blocks of life. The variation in the size and shape of the forms in this painting moves our eyes attention in and out of focus across the picture plane. I really enjoy that your eyes get to explore and discover subtle hidden shapes and textures within the painted surface. A joy to the eye and the mind.
”I feel like I am gently floating like jelly-fish” is a lovely comment I so often receive from this series.
What I enjoy most about my paintings is they make people smile with a sense of wonderment and feelings of happiness as well as giving their walls interest and a splash of colour for years to come.
