Tropical Fusions - Panels 1 and 2 of 4 total

Tropical Fusions

Is an experimental art ‘potpourri’ work involving techniques of drawing, collage, opaque and transparent painting, layering and then even more overlaying, cutting and dividing.

Mixed-media:pencils – graphite, charcoal, pastel, oil, coloured; soft pastels, impasto gel (acrylic medium), netting, papers – rice, cartridge; natural processed fibres – bagasse (from sugar cane stems); water-based screen-print ink.

Support: 300gsm Arches rag paper, each size 385 × 285 mm

An original sheet size 770 × 570 mm was divided into quarters and each work then laminated onto individual stretched canvases and presented in a single frame format for exhibiting.

Tropical Fusions (Panel 1 of 4) 

(Image = Bottom left hand side panel of four.)

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Tropical Fusions (Panel 1 of 4) by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch©2013

Tropical Fusions (Panel 2 of 4)

(Image = Bottom right hand side panel of four.)

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Tropical Fusions (Panel 2 of 4) by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch©2013

 

 Original work is:

• From the Group Exhibition: Cross Currents, 2002, Sugarama Gallery, Mourilyan, QLD.
• Also Exhibited: 2002-03, Year of the Outback DPI Flying Arts and Selected for Flying Arts TOURING Exhibition Regional Queensland.
• Currently in the Artist’s Collection.

Inspiration/influences

Overall compositional imagery was inspired/influenced from nature drawing/painting studies direct from my local surrounding Far North Queensland tropical environment such as the capturing of:

• undulating strata layers, rhythms and patterns from the telling timeline surfaces of palm tree trunks
• Leaves – both actual and implied: of leaf fall, Native Hibiscus Tiliaceus (cottonwood) dried leaves plus others
• Palm seeds
• Butterflies and wings – both actual and implied: of the Cairns Birdwing and other
• Seasonal atmospheric elements and Moon cycles
• Earthy oxide palettes – of red iron, Indian red, yellow ochre, white, terra-verte, charcoal and blue – of soils, sands, sky, barks, plants, leaves etc.
• Vessel shapes based on my own fibre receptacle forms
• Symbology plays an overall important role in the total work. More info on this can be found at my home website ~ www.kerrynmadsen-pietsch.com

 

Each of the panel works are being made available as 'prints on demand' for the first time via
my RedBubble Gallery  

 

'Tropical Fusions (Panel 2 of 4)' by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch ©2013 | RedBubble CARD

Tropical Fusions (Panel 1 of 4) by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch ©2013 | RedBubble CARD

Tropical Fusions (Panel 1 of 4) by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch ©2013 | RedBubble

Sample - FRAMED ART WORK

Tropical Fusions (Panel 2 of 4) by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch ©2013 | RedBubble

Sample - FRAMED ART WORK

Vessel Scape

Vessel Scape is a subtle minimalist abstract artwork in mixed media.
This is my work entry in the 'Hidden Treasures', annual fundraiser Postcard Show, Cairns Regional Gallery, Dec.2nd - 11th. 2011. All exhibiting diptych format Postcard works are sold by the Silent Auction process.
(Bids to close 2.30pm for 3pm Auction Sunday 11th Dec.)

Continuing on with my vessel theme for this annual event, the work investigates spatial and ethereal qualities, relationships between physical and non-physical realms, spaces between, states of stillness and an in-between knowing.

Vessel Scape - Diptych: 2 (8×6inches).

Medium: pastel, charcoal, gesso, ink; 

 Support: Arches 300gsm rag paper,
MDF board backing support.

POEM
Notions/thoughts -  
Oft times we linger
In that space
Between
Neither here, nor there
Nor anywhere really
Sitting quietly, meditating
Not striving, just arriving
Being here and now
With presence of
An awareness
Of a life-giving breath
Of spirit
Being

In a physical world

There is a strong sense
Of the sublime
In the inner quiet
In the calmness 
Of spatial
The ethereal
- Qualities of floating
Delicate
Light
Spaciousness

Consciousness/light
Traces
Physical contour markings
Over implied grid coordinates
Passages
Meeting points
Connections
Relationships
Inferred
In time/distance
Traveled
Touched

Spaces between
Stillness,
Knowing-ness
Presence
In spaces between.

 ©Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch

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Vessel Scape by K.Madsen-Pietsch
Card print @ Redbubble 

• A wide selection range of *Vessel Scape print products are available at my RedBubble Gallery store. 

Vessel Scape by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch
Tote Bag
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Vessel Scape by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch
Framed example
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*Edited/Updated
~ 4.12.2011
~ 1.09.2014
~ 6 Feb. 2018

Transit Memory 1

Introducing my first work in the Transit Memory series - a digital art collage composition having used my own scanned manipulated imagery of lace and papers and processed through Photoshop CS2.

Giclee prints of Transit Memory available from RedBubble ~ http://www.redbubble.com/people/artropica/art/5560654-transit-memory-1?c=58164-digital-creations

Inspiration extends from my previous symbology abstract work development referencing notions of transcendental passage for growth in our world of duality and memory associations.

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“It (memory) is essential for much reasoning and decision-making, both individual and collective.” Also ”... an understanding of memory is likely to be important in making sense of the continuity of the self, of the relation between mind and body, and of our experience of time”.  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/memory/
(See below further reference notes taken from the Memory discussion source .)


Reference Notes

Meaning of Transit: The act of passing; passage through or over. Synonyms: pass through, pass across, pass over.

Memory  discussion source
Citation 
Sutton, John, "Memory", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2010 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = .

"Memory’ labels a diverse set of cognitive capacities by which we retain information and reconstruct past experiences, usually for present purposes. Memory is one of the most important ways by which our histories animate our current actions and experiences. Most notably, the human ability to conjure up long-gone but specific episodes of our lives is both familiar and puzzling, and is a key aspect of personal identity. Memory seems to be a source of knowledge. We remember experiences and events which are not happening now, so memory differs from perception. We remember events which really happened, so memory is unlike pure imagination. Yet, in practice, there can be close interactions between remembering, perceiving, and imagining. Remembering is often suffused with emotion, and is closely involved in both extended affective states such as love and grief, and socially significant practices such as promising and commemorating. It is essential for much reasoning and decision-making, both individual and collective. It is connected in obscure ways with dreaming. Some memories are shaped by language, others by imagery. Much of our moral and social life depends on the peculiar ways in which we are embedded in time. Memory goes wrong in mundane and minor, or in dramatic and disastrous ways.
 ... an understanding of memory is likely to be important in making sense of the continuity of the self, of the relation between mind and body, and of our experience of time,  ..." http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/memory/

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