ArtView March 2015 | Page 65

Morning light, wild flowers (watercolour on Arches paper) when all is still. Gradually, as the earth awakens to capturing the full vibrancy of Australian bush the light of the morning sun, the forms of the flowers. flowers appear. Morning Light takes us to mid- This love of materials extends also to the other morning, where my greatest challenge was to mediums I work in. For carving woodcut blocks I capture the subtlety of colours and harmony of use Japanese magnolia wood which has a beautiful tones in the full morning light. This circle will be smooth silky grain, and is ideal for gouging very followed by two other circles – one depicting the fine lines. I love experimenting with different heat and colours of midday, and the other the late papers, from rice paper to thick cotton rag papers. afternoon and evening light. For etchings, I prefer copper plates to zinc plates – I In order to realize my vision, I believe that I must work with the finest materials available. I feel more simpatico with copper. So to sum up, I believe that I must use the best really enjoy buying the very best possible materials possible materials in order to do justice to the – brushes, canvases, paper and of course pigments. I amazing world around me. also love lapis lazuli and use it a lot in my work. Lapis lazuli enables me to attain the translucent harmony of tone that gives an extra dimension in More images from Morning Light follow -