Moira Welch
West Sussex
Semi abstract paintings inspired by the organic forms, vivid colours, and textures of nature.
MessageMy work inspired by organic forms in nature from the Sussex landscape which I now call home. Plants and flowers have a starring role as do the vivid greens of the South Downs with their bleached streaks of chalk, and the clipped precision of the hedgerows that criss-cross the land. The diversity of the landscape is reflected in the variety of materials used to produce my work which includes acrylics, watercolours, ink, pencils, soft oil pastels, chalk and charcoal.
My current project is ‘The Garden Series’ which explores memory, identity, and dreams through the prism of my garden. After many years of travelling and living in multiple cities and continents, I now finally feel ‘grounded’. Key to this has been having a space where I’ve literally and metaphorically been able to put down roots and to observe the rhythms of the seasons with the cycles of blossoming, withering and fading on repeat.
In this place where I feel calm, reflective and inspired, I record the myriad of colours, textures and patterns. Later, in the process of hiding then revealing specific marks and colours, memory fragments of past places and times are exposed such as the swaying palms and splashes of hot pink Bougainvillea of my childhood garden in Mozambique, to the delicate poise of the Roses in front of my Grandmother’s house in Kent. Present, past and imagined gardens blend into indeterminate dream-like spaces which I convey through my paintings.
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