#275 Memoryscape (Garden with sunflowers and pencil pines) | Leah Bullen
Watercolour, gouache and monotype on paper
WINNER: BEST IN SHOW | 2D PAINTING/DRAWING
Height: 79cm. Width: 85cm.
I started this work of a garden before the hardest part of the drought. For me gardens and gardening have always been a place and an activity centred around family, the beauty of nature and tranquillity. Memoryscape has gained a new currency over this challenging summer. It is a landscape of personal memories, daydreams and nostalgia — a landscape of ecological grief.
My paintings depict sites that recreate the natural world, like gardens or aquariums. These places act as a kind of ‘theatre of the real’ where we experience nature as an approximation. I consider these locations as being conceptually linked to the act of representational painting itself, which reimagines the world through illusion.
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Watercolour, gouache and monotype on paper
WINNER: BEST IN SHOW | 2D PAINTING/DRAWING
Height: 79cm. Width: 85cm.
I started this work of a garden before the hardest part of the drought. For me gardens and gardening have always been a place and an activity centred around family, the beauty of nature and tranquillity. Memoryscape has gained a new currency over this challenging summer. It is a landscape of personal memories, daydreams and nostalgia — a landscape of ecological grief.
My paintings depict sites that recreate the natural world, like gardens or aquariums. These places act as a kind of ‘theatre of the real’ where we experience nature as an approximation. I consider these locations as being conceptually linked to the act of representational painting itself, which reimagines the world through illusion.
More information about the artist
Watercolour, gouache and monotype on paper
WINNER: BEST IN SHOW | 2D PAINTING/DRAWING
Height: 79cm. Width: 85cm.
I started this work of a garden before the hardest part of the drought. For me gardens and gardening have always been a place and an activity centred around family, the beauty of nature and tranquillity. Memoryscape has gained a new currency over this challenging summer. It is a landscape of personal memories, daydreams and nostalgia — a landscape of ecological grief.
My paintings depict sites that recreate the natural world, like gardens or aquariums. These places act as a kind of ‘theatre of the real’ where we experience nature as an approximation. I consider these locations as being conceptually linked to the act of representational painting itself, which reimagines the world through illusion.
More information about the artist