KATHY CORNWALL

My five paintings delve into the visual integration between the trees’ living bodies and the river system. Like naked lovers, they appear a tangle of the Earth’s elements. To me they are images of Life’s awakening and its relentless nature. Each element with its own strength maintains a balance of power along the arm of the rainforest...the trees are like a bracelet of the waterfall.

Rainforests make me feel aware. The conditions of Josephine Falls provides for mosses and lichens to mingle across a landscape of roots and boulders. The lichens appear to bloom, as speckled fairylandings. Nature’s dynamic, untamed movement is winding and free-spirited.

The process of painting these scenes is one of uncovering a mysterious dialogue with the world’s garden. A kind of ‘madness’ evolves, as a result of my visual interaction with the work, moving between analytical, intuitive and emotive expression, I attempt to describe the sculptural form on a two-dimensional surface.

I paint to encapsulate my connection with nature, instinctively allowing fleeting thoughts of construction to float through my mind. I ponder on a concept that embraces the chaos of the universe as a kind of perfection. I integrate perspective changes throughout the series of work, allowing immersion in a greater reality. I crop to enhance intimacy. I work my paintbrush to echo the wild dance of life.

Forms become morphed into flowing currents, slippery secret spaces, for creatures to dwell. Line is tangled, curving, curling, measured at times; integrated and busy. Moisture is defined in the progressive depths of tone and colour emanating from hollows. Lost edges are anchored by floating marks to accentuate structure. Form disappears and reappears within pattern.