There has been blessed silence for some time, what with
Christmas and summer and involvement in other activities, but I have been busy
doing research on the very absorbing subject of “the leaf,” preparatory to
beginning my new body of work.
I have taken many photos. I have haunted the nearby park
with my visual diary and I have brought home branches of trees that have fallen
to the ground in windy weather (smallish) to study both their configuration and their leaves in more detail.
For a while there, my studio had a large pile of greenery
sitting on the floor, while I slowly waded my way through it, examining and
drawing each variation, magnifying glass at the ready. Being mainly Eucalypt
branches the pile gave off a distinctive smell, which permeated the whole house
and probably led guests to wonder what manner of strange people lived in this
place. Never mind, it is all in the cause of art and I am used to people
thinking that I am a little eccentric.
Anyway, I was amazed at the variety of patterns I discovered
in the leaves and have now embarked on the new work, combining ideas from the
patterns evident in microstructure to broader scale compositions of clusters of
different leaf types.
(Images from visual diary: 1= casuarina, 2+3= eucalypt and 4= grevillea)
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