It has been my lifelong quest to capture the wonder of trees with their unique colours, textures, shadows, proportions, shapes and negative space.  I am excited to share my unique 3D Tree collages, made up of naturally formed abstract shapes in high quality professional, lightfast watercolours on thick acid-free textured watercolour paper.  My work explores the shapes and elements that make up a whole.

 

It is important that only natural elements such as water, air and gravity are applied to the paint to achieve the wide variety of shapes. Any human manipulation detracts from the whole. I find the process and discovery of the shapes that form wondrous and mesmerising.  

 

I carefully cut them out with a scalpel – leaving a thin white border so their shape isn’t lost when my ‘treasures’ are slowly layered up to form a tree. 

 

I take my time, giving the trees time to grow, finding form and meaning in the abstract shapes. It reminds me of cloud-spotting, another of my pastimes.

 

I hope that others might benefit similarly from scrutinising my work and perhaps enjoy the realisation that this is not a 2D painting as they get closer and see the individual shapes making up the whole.

 

My ’deconstructed trees’ are individual ink shapes I was moved to preserve in their entirety. They float between panes of glass, adding a pleasing 3D shadow element.

 

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