Artwork Size

Sold as a set of 3 artwork panels (triptych)

Size with wooden frame: H164.7 x W89.6 cm per panel, total 3 panels
Size without wooden frame: H160 x W85 cm per panel, total 3 panels
275cm across all 3 artworks (with 1 inch gap between)

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Artwork Medium

Acrylic Painting, Silkscreen Printing on Canvas, Silk Fabric Applique, Flocking, Foiling on Linen Canvas
Canvas Artwork has wire at back of frame for hanging.

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Artwork Description

‘The Sage Forest’, or in other words ‘The Healing Forest’, is an artwork that developed as a result of a personal journey I was going through. After a traumatic time in my life, I was drawn to paint with the colour green and work with plants as my main subject matter. Sage green in particular is known for its healing properties.

As an Artist, it is essential that you are growing in your visual expressions and are continually challenging yourself to move into new creative spheres. There are periods in your artistic career where you may find yourself reworking and re-exploring the same subject matter for quite some time. And then there are the times when a whole new vision opens up. I would go as far as to say that this can be a kind of spiritual experience as creative ideas are planted into your dreams. You wake up, ready and excited to paint! Once painting, the initial ideas take on a life of their own, and in doing so the artwork emerges. There are risks involved, and you find yourself entering new territories. But the key is to let go, be free and be confident that the years of painting and skills developed, will carry you along the way. As the Creator creates, I have the freedom to create and this opportunity is gratefully embraced. Working at a high speed you notice all the details, the way the paint reacts to the canvas surface, the effects that adding water has, the way pencil marks interact with wet ink …

After some high energy moments you step back and take a look at what has been created.

It’s then that you pause and take time to consider. Does this combination of marks and the colour palette take me back to the source of my inspiration? The times that I’ve spent walking through the rainforest. The sense of anticipation as I wondered what visual surprise was waiting for me around the next corner. A wide open expanse, a still lake reflecting gigantic old trees. There’s a kind of awe that is sensed, knowing these green beauties have been here long before you even existed. Just walking through these green spaces, you feel rejuvenated & healed. You come out of the forest knowing that the colour green does hold an energy within it. Green is the symbolic colour for hope, new life, rejuvenation, restoration, healing, health, vigour & flourishing.

Interior designers have always loved to ‘bring the outdoors in’. In the same way I love the idea of bringing colour stories into a living space. As the fresh life of green enters the space, it is my hope that the viewer entering the space feels rejuvenated, healed and hopeful as they take a visual walk through ‘The Sage Forest’.

The size of this piece is 165cm high and when all three panels are placed together it expands to almost 3 metres across. It is hard to capture in a photograph and is therefore best experienced in person. If you let it, it will take you on a visual journey of your own. As a semi-abstract piece each viewer sees the artwork in their own unique way. An area of paint that has been sprayed down with water and then blurred out with a brush still looks visually wet. For one viewer this was her waterfall. From a distance, and viewed as a whole there is an impact created by the shear size. Come closer and the experience changes as textures and marks are visually explored. As with most of my artworks ‘The Sage Forest’, is a mixed media piece. It is made up of silk screen printed layers, which were originally created from photographs that I took. It contains hand painting and large brush strokes. Pencil drawings & scribbles marks, metallic foils and velvet textures have also been added to the surface. And finally, characteristic to my artworks, there are layers of fabric – Chinese silk, Indian saris and Indonesian batik.

“The Sage Forest’, has moved me into a new direction but at the same time I feel that these new colour series are still recognisable as my personal artistic style.

I’m looking forward to taking you on this visual colour journey.

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作品描述

《智者森林》或称《疗愈森林》，是一件源于我个人心路历程而启发的作品。当我经历创伤后，我被绿色有所吸引，而我便以植物作为作品创作的主题。尤其是鼠尾草绿（Sage Green），以其疗愈特性而闻名。

作为艺术家，我不断在视觉表达上成长、自我挑战使我进入新的创作领域。在我的艺术生涯中，有一段时间不断重访和重新探索同一题材；而在另一时刻，一种全新的创作愿景会突然出现。我甚至可以说，这是一种精神体验——创意像种子般被植入我的梦中。当我醒来时，充满激情与期待，迫不及待地去作画！

在创作过程中，构想逐渐成形，作品也随之诞生。创作时充满风险，因我进入了未知领域。但关键就是要放手、自由发挥，信任自己多年来累积的技艺会引领我前行。正如造物主创造万物，我也拥有创造的自由，并心怀感恩地珍惜这份创作的经历。以高速创作时，我注意到一切细节——颜料在画布上如何反应，水的加入所带来的变化，以及铅笔痕迹与湿墨之间微妙的交融……

在一段高能量的创作之后，我会退后一步来观看那已完成的画面。这时我停下来, 思考：这些笔触与色彩组合，是否将我带回最初的灵感源头？当我回忆起我曾在雨林中漫步的时光，那种带着期待的感觉——好奇在下一个转角，会有怎样的惊喜等着我。眼前是一片广阔的空旷地，一汪静谧的湖水倒映着高大古老的树木。一种敬畏油然而生，因为这些绿色的生命在我诞生之前早已存在。仅仅走在这些绿色空间中，我就能感受到被重生与疗愈的力量。走出森林后，我会意识到绿色本身蕴藏着能量。绿色象征希望、新生、复苏、疗愈、健康、活力与繁盛。

室内设计师通常喜欢“将户外引入室内”，而我同样也喜欢把色彩故事带入室内空间。我希望观者在这个空间赏画时，能漫步于《智者森林》的视觉世界中，而感受到身心的复苏、疗愈与希望。

此作品高165厘米，三幅拼合时，宽度近3米。照片难以完整呈现其效果，因此最适合亲临现场感受。如果你愿意，它会带你进行一次独特的视觉旅程。作为半抽象作品，每位观者都会以自己独特的方式去解读画面。被喷洒水后再用刷子模糊的颜料区域仍显湿润——对某位观者来说，这就是她的瀑布。远观全景，其宏大尺寸带来的视觉令人印象深刻；走近则能探索纹理与笔触的细节。

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Artwork Viewing

Please email us to arrange for a studio appointment; in email please mention original artwork(s) you are interested in viewing.
For international clients, a video call (Zoom or Whatsapp) can be arranged.

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Shipping & Delivery

For local orders, delivery and installation is complimentary.

For international orders, canvas artworks will be taken off the frame and delivered rolled up in a sturdy cardboard tube. Framing instructions will be included, which can be taken to any framer.

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