Renée Marjolein, Catching Eels

Description

Renée Marjolein
Catching Eels Woodcut print (colour)
380 x 310 mm
$250

My current work is a response to the demanding pace of life. I try to capture stillness and peace, a sense of comfort and connection to pleasant memories. I elevate quiet moments and familiar places. My work is reflective and grounded in a recognizably local setting. I include the stuff of life to reference the people and activity of the place. There is a personification in the baches themselves as they sit with openness and honesty facing the viewer and the sun, cloaked by the garden and bush that embraces them and overshadowed by the hills beyond. In other recent works still or gently moving water is an increasingly important feature in complement to the enveloping of the bush. I hope they evoke feelings of peace, rest and belonging for the viewer and bring to mind places we are drawn to return to, whether physically, in memory or in imaginings.