amanda thesiger
My practice has evolved to include a variety of media. I work with natural inks,
watercolours and oils; often combining these with drawn elements, print and
collage. Taking a process-led approach through open-ended drawing and painting,
my own experience and understanding of nature sustains an individualistic,
painterly language. Visualising formal content for abstract work, I allow
elements to take their time and rely on my mind’s eye as a guide, unaware of the
outcome. Studio experimentation on a range of surfaces generates a family of
diverse but connected artworks. This ‘what if?’ process embraces a notion of
becoming; something is caught, glimpses perhaps from a kind of reverie,
half-dreamed. Often coupling the familiar with the unfamiliar, the paintings I
make can be read as a string of things, as a syntax of forms. Analogous to
language; the work occupies the space between word and image, voice and
brush-mark, sentence and form.
