Hinterland

“Nature spoke to me in the guise of silence. The quieter I became the more I heard”
Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge

From Maxine:

The paintings hint at something that is beyond what is visible or known.

The hinterland is a place a little bit beyond comprehension it pulls us to transcend our everyday understanding; like dreams.

My drawings and paintings begin with a type of improvisation where one shape spontaneously gives form to the next until a pattern or cycle of emergence is complete.

In this way, the layers of ink communicate with each other much like the discord and harmony at play within our own consciousness.

I try to bring careful attention to the white breathing spaces between each blue shape to balance the active elements with moments of silence.