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Joanne
Thomson
" I use my art to explore the experience of being a person
interacting with the world around me. I play. I think. I cry.
I laugh. I experience life and then I try to capture and communicate
some of this experience using colour and line on paper. I am
intrigued by the complexities of life and art making allows
me to explore those complexities visually. I love colour and
I love light. Watercolour combine the use of colour and the
transparency allows light to go through the paint to the paper
and bounce back.
I push the media in new ways creating complex and simple washes
of colour with crisp outlines. I explore, I reflect, I invent.
Currently I am working in two themes; landscapes and bottled
people.
I am a child of the west coast and have a deep connection with
the wild places. In the landscape works I attempt to capture
the experience of sitting quietly in nature, watching, seeing,
smelling, listening, and connecting with other living things.
Most of my teaching is about assisting others to connect visually
and viscerally with the natural landscape. These works have
grown over many years with my style becoming recognizable for
it's clean lines and complex interactions of areas of wash.
The bottled series is all about communicating with other people.
Using the bottle as metaphor I explore the frustrations of trying,,
the bliss of not bothering, joy of being successful , and provide
satirical commentary on human dialogue. I have a great deal
of fun with the bottled images now, but they grew out of painful
self-reflection and a great deal of frustration with the social
rules of the workplace."<br>
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