Statement
"So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea."
These paintings often feature my sons surrounded and partially covered by a variety of natural elements such as ferns and shrubs. The hidden and vulnerable quality of childhood is synonymous here with the fragility of the natural world. Olga Tokarczuk states that “describing is destroying”, and these works, suspended between figuration and abstraction, between thinking and feeling, offer an experience of unnamed tenderness. Here, a messy, lush forest might ask to be known and loved, and without words, you respond: “yes”.
© Shari-Anne Vis,