2020 BigCi

These are paintings from my 6week artist residency

An abstract painting featuring a mixture of geometric shapes, including a central dark rectangular shape and 6 pale blue and 8 lime green small triangles, set against a muted pink background.
Greenwash 150x150cm
An abstract artwork with 12 randomly placed small rectangles black, yellow, red, white and blue red. Partly covered is a small stylised green leaf-like shape. All this sits on larger shapes of pale grey and ochre.
Hakea-you should stop!
150x150cm
Abstract painting featuring geometric shapes and a vibrant colour palette including orange, yellow, pink, black, and blue grey, on a mostly grey background.
Petra’s Five Colour Pencils 150x150cm
An abstract painting featuring geometric shapes in textured vibrant colours including yellow, green, maroon, grey and purple, with a central grid of 9 red circles.
Wrong Pattern 150x150cm
An abstract painting with a large shape with yellow pink and green blotches, on a light purple background surrounded by pink with a small black square near the upper left corner.
Communication Shape with Colour Swatch 60x60cm
An abstract painting featuring a large textured pink rectangle over a textured yellow/green background, and a smaller white rectangle on the right over the pink shape and running out of the frame.
Faltering Flag 60x60cm
Abstract painting with a large grey shape outlined with black and a vertical black line against a soft pink background, with a small rectangular shaped protruding filled with a light burst effect.
Communication Shape Flag Fall 60x60cm
A painting with 2 orange/red shapes, joined by a narrow vivid yellow shape on a textured dark and black background.
Communication Line and Shape 60x60cm
An abstract painting with two joined blue rectangles on top of textured grey background, and large diagonal shape textured with bold yellow and black brushstrokes in the upper right corner.
New Flag, Same Request 60x60cm
An abstract painting featuring four quadrants with a mix of yellow, grey, and black colours and varying textures, including curved lines and geometric shapes.
You should Stop, I have something important to communicate 60x84cm
Abstract artwork featuring four sections: two translucent yellow rectangles in diagonal corners and two rectangles with textured with black charcoal.
You Should Stop 42x59cm
Geometric artwork divided into 4 quadrants with two translucent red and two white, on top smudged patches of black and grey charcoal.
You are Standing into Danger 56x76cm
This abstract artwork features a deep blue cross on a watercolour beige background, On the right is a vertical black rectangular frame containing a pale colour and 9 red circles connected by lines.
Stop carrying out your intentions! 56x76cm
An abstract artwork featuring a horizontal diamond shape containing a translucent red cross over a background of black and grey charcoal smudges, the diamond is framed by soft pink brush strokes.
I require assistance – I am disabled 42x59cm

BigCi Artist Residency Nov-Dec 2020, I spent six weeks with three other artists at ‘BigCi’ in the Blue Mountains. Initially I proposed an environmental project, making art around the local bushfires of summer 2019. At first, the drawings and paintings I made were directly influenced by the charcoal tree stumps dotted through the adjoining national park. But over the six weeks my painting processes became about ‘communication’ and nature’s cry for help looking at the cause of the fires rather than the results. My art took on a narrative form, around the meanings and shapes of the very specific international communication system of Marine Signal Flags. Given this shift and the direct comment, I still managed to stay true to my abstract, non-objective art processes. Because of the space I also experimented with larger 150x150cm canvases.