2021 paintings

2021 Many of these works are on paper (a logical medium) because of the volume of work I was making, my Post Graduate studies at UNSW: Art and Design also had an influence during the 1st half of 2021.

Abstract artwork featuring geometric shapes in various shades of yellow, with a central square framed in black and a grey section at the bottom.
Yellow Square
50x40cm
An enlarged grey painting of a small found plastic object on an abstract grey shape with a brush textured boarder set on a pale yellow background.
Found Object 38x27cm
A textured leaf silhouette on a pale purple background with subtle textural patterns and 2.5 hand drawn charcoal letters. Framed with a painted buff background
Respect 30x21cm
An abstract painting featuring geometric shapes in various colours including green, pink, purple, and orange. The composition includes rectangles and lines creating a modern artistic expression.
Past Objective 70x50cm
Abstract circular painting with concentric shapes in pink, dark purple and orange (filling most of the canvas) against a soft green background.
At Rest 35x35cm
Abstract artwork featuring four vertical orange stripes outlined with pink and white on a textured dark purple background.
4 Stripes on Canvas 35x35cm
A small abstract artwork with 9 vertical and horizontal brush lines in purple/black on a light background. Painted on top are 2 translucent yellow brush strokes creating dynamic shapes across the composition.
Non-conforming Stripes
35x35cm
An abstract pink watercolour shape with uneven edges over a background of horizontal wobbly black lines.
Punctuation 36x36cm
Abstract painting with 4 sections separated with black brushed boarders the top left section is a washy cobalt blue the other 3 a paper colour.
Offcuts Speaking 50x40cm
Abstract artwork featuring a textured deep burgundy background with two irregular white rectangles on the right and bottom edges. These shapes are tied together with a thin white line on the left and top.
Squared 59.4x42cm
An abstract painting featuring a large pink shape outlined in black, surrounded by a muddled vibrant colours like yellow, blue and green in a layered composition.
Join the Cutoffs 50x40cm
A minimalist painting featuring a large shape outlined with magenta brushstrokes with a softer, horizontal lavender brushed panel toward the bottom, on top a light background.
‘no dots’ Offcuts Paired 57x42cm
A minimalist artwork featuring a large white irregular shape outlined in black against a dark purple background.
Same Cutoffs 50x40cm
Abstract painting featuring 3 green and yellow geometric shapes outlined in textured black, set against a soft pink and white background.
untitled 30x30cm
An abstract watercolour painting featuring three irregular rectangles in pale colours of blue, pink and yellow each outlined with a brushed black border.
Offcuts Reconfigured 42x57cm
An abstract artwork featuring a brush textured grey vertical rectangle containing a purple circle linked to the top with a purple line. There is a wide dark red mitred frame right and bottom. On the right side a seemingly unrelated abstract purple shape.
Greetings from Yesterday 65x45cm
Abstract painting with a central horizontal white shape bordered by a jagged dark grey. On the right is a vertical yellow panel outlined with pale purple keeping it separated from the horizontal shape. (creating a tension)
Tension 61x61cm
A stylised painting featuring an elongated black and blue leaf on a brushed washy blue and white background alongside two pink abstract shapes.
Backlit 38x38cm
An abstract artwork featuring a central blue dot and an organic shape created by a blue line, outlined in a narrower black line, set against a muted grey background.
B. citriodora Blue 30x30cm
An abstract painting featuring four pink, organic shapes with holes, looking a bit like inflated plastic. Set on top a brush textured light grey background with random faint red markings.
the day after dots 60x60cm
Square abstract painting with three pink organic shapes outlined with textured red with cut-out holes. On a pale pink square with a grid of thin blue lines.
Red Oil Dots3 30x30cm
4 organic abstract magenta shapes, overlaid with a pale translucent grey within a line tracing of an unfolded box structure.
Airplane Style 30x30cm
A minimalist abstract painting featuring 2 large painted white shapes each with one black circle. Both are set on a black background painted with a white grid.
Study Oil Dots 32.5×32.5cm with frame
An abstract painting featuring a dark vertical textured rectangle covering muted curved forms, resting on a curved grey and yellow base. Framed either side by muted magenta/grey.
Once Was 30x30cm
An abstract painting featuring a diagonal pink shape with a brushed dark blue outline on a blue grey background. This shape partly resembles a face with two circles for eyes and a curved line suggesting a mouth.
Blue Oil Dots 32.5×32.5cm
A grid of nine abstract paintings featuring various shapes in shades of red, yellow, blue and grey, arranged on a gallery wall.
Set of nine 30x30cm
An abstract painting in layers of different styles: ruled pen lines on yellow and grey background with an irregular grey shape in the centre and on top of that the back view of head and shoulders.
New Normal 30x30cm
A colourful abstract painting featuring bold orange and black shapes on a textured light blue background. With a yellow and pink squiggly rope like line in the top half on a whitish background.
Excited as Tamara Falls 60x50cm

This was a period of freedom to experiment, with Covid isolation and the end of my UNSW Art and Design studies. My UNSW capstone project, 10 Oil Dots was exhibited at gaffa Gallery in Sydney. During the first half of 2021, I made 160 paintings, many A3 (30x42cm) on paper but I also used canvas, poly-cotton and wood. The work over this period incorporates themes and motifs, linking back to my earlier artworks while continuing my fusion of art processes: Post Minimalism, Non-Objective, Abstract, found object, by-product, chance and random. This reinforces my general theme ‘Variety’ which, I feel, links my work to nature. The painting ‘Once Was’ is a reworking of an unsold Oil Dot painting from the Capstone exhibition, and as is often the case with me, the work I make on the side while preparing for the exhibition or the one I re-working after the exhibition, carries more freedom and depth.