ArtView November 2015 | Page 17

Blue Wishing Tree 2014 (3 plate colour etching 50 x 50cm) Europe. Into the woods features a horizontal line of trees, their leafy tops truncated out of the picture plane, while violent scratched line work crisscross the scene. There is no path through the ghostly white forms of tree trunks, which from the low viewing perspective appear almost like bars of a prison. Whereas other works such as Nanango II are similarly dense, yet depict the organic forms of vegetation in vivid, celebratory fashion. Consistent within these prints, and all the works in this exhibition is the artist’s investigation of the emotional, psychological and spiritual experience of the natural world, and a keen awareness of her place within it. Protection is showing at the Firestation Print Studio from 13-28 November 2015 www.firestationprintstudio.com.au